Exam 11: Prosocial Behavior: Why Do People Help

According to research on the impact of religion on helping behavior, if Dr.Hinford, a devoutly religious man, makes a donation to a children's charity, he is most likely to do it

Researchers staged an incident in which a man fell down with a cry of pain and raised his pant leg to reveal a bloody injury.The staged scene was repeated in both rural and urban areas.When Amato counted the number of passersby who stopped to help the man, he found that

Researchers exposed some students to a lecture on bystander intervention research and other students to a lecture on an unrelated topic.Two weeks later

In support for the empathy-altruism hypothesis, researchers (Toi & Batson, 1982) found that participants were most likely to help a student named Carol who was injured in an automobile accident when they were told

The basic tenet of ________ is that when we feel empathy for another person's plight, we will help that person regardless of what we may stand to gain.

Helga stops and helps Bjorn change a flat tire along the road because she figures that one day she'll need help and someone will return the favor.This best illustrates the idea of

Annie works with AIDS patients to get an idea of whether she wants to pursue social work as a career.Bert volunteers at a mental hospital to fulfill a class requirement.Stacey paints a mural for her old school because her sorority requires her to do a community service project.George helps the elderly prepare their income tax returns because his accounting firm will not give him a Christmas bonus if he does not volunteer.Who is most likely to engage in volunteer work again in the future?

Do men and women differ in their tendency to help? If so, how?

If you were an employer who wanted to increase volunteerism among your employees, what strategy would you employ in order to increase the chances that the employees would continue to volunteer in the future?

According to the authors of your text, people who have lived in the same place for a longer time tend to feel

The idea that natural selection favors behaviors that help a genetic relative is known as

According to research presented by the authors of your text, in which of the following cities would you be the most likely to be helped if you needed help crossing a busy street?

Complete the following analogy.Reward of helping: ________ :: cost of helping: ________.

Which of the following statements is most closely related to the empathy-altruism hypothesis (Batson, 1991)?

According to evolutionary psychologists, why would Doris be more likely to save her children than her parents in a life-threatening emergency? Doris's children

You ask your brother if you can borrow his car for a date on Saturday night.Before handing over the keys, he asks in jest, "What's in it for me?" His question best reflects ________ as applied to prosocial behavior.

Julianna likes to contribute to worthy charities because she can help others and, at the same time, get a tax deduction.Julianna is engaging in

Every morning at the bus stop, Carlos encounters an old woman begging for change.She is clearly hungry and alone.Because Carlos feels very bad for this woman and can "feel her pain," he makes a point of giving her some change each morning that he sees her.Which theoretical approach best explains Carlos's behavior?

According to research by Batson and his colleagues, when empathy is ________, people ________.

Recall that Latané and Darley (1970) had participants complete questionnaires alone, or in the presence of two others.When the experimental room filled with "smoke," participants who were alone reported the potential emergency more quickly than did those who worked on the questionnaire in the company of others.These results provide support for the concept of