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| Actions intended to benefit others. |
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| Preferential helping of genetic relatives which results in the greater likelihood that genes held in common will survive. |
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| Helping someone else increases the likelihood that you will be helped in return. |
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| One person helps another and then an additional person helps them. |
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| The understanding or vicariously experiencing another individual's perspective and feeling sympathy and compassion for that individual. |
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People are more likely to help someone in an emergency if the potential rewards seem high and the potential costs seem low.
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| Arousal: Cost-Reward Model |
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| The proposition that people react to emergency situations by acting in the most cost effective way to reduce the arousal of shock and alarm. |
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| Negative State Relief Model |
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| The proposition that people help others in order to counteract their own feelings of sadness. |
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| Motivated by the desire to increase one's own welfare. |
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| Motivated by the desire to improve another's welfare. |
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| Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis |
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| The proposition that empathic concerns for a person in need produces an alrtuistic motive for helping. |
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In an emergency, a person who needs help has a much better chance of getting it if three other people are present than if only one other person is present.
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| The effect by which the presence of others inhibits helping. |
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Five Steps to Helping in an Emergency
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1. Notice something is happening
-ambiguity, pluralistic ignorance
2. Interpret even as an emergency
-diffusion of responsibilty (someone else must've called 911)
3. Take responsibility for providing help
-lack of competence
4. Decide how to help
-Audience inhibition, Cost exceeds rewards
5. Provide help |
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| The state in which people in a group mistakenly think that their own individual thoughts, feelings, or behaviours are different from those of the others in the group. |
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| Diffusion of Responsibility |
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| The belief that others will or should take the responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need. |
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| Reluctance to help for fear of making a babd impression for observers. |
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| The effect wherby a good mood increases helping behaviour |
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People are much less likely to help someone when they're in a bad mood.
True or False? |
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| A general rule of conduct reflecting standards of social approval and disapproval. |
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| Norm of Social Responsibility |
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| A moral standard emphasizing that people should help those in need of assistance. |
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Attractive people have a better chance than unattractive people of getting help when they need it.
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Women seek help more often then men do.
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| Threat-to-self-esteem Model |
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| The theory that reactions to receiving assistance depend on whether help is perceived as supportive or threatening. |
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