Chapt 10
Terms
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- Prosocial Behavior
- a helpful action that benefits other people without necessarily providing any direct benefits to the preson performing the act, and may even involve a risk for the person who helps
- Altruism
- behavior that reflects an unselfish concern for the welfare of others
- Bystander Effect
- the likelihood of a prosocial response to an emergency is affected by the number of bystanders who are present
- 5 Essential Steps to the decision to help
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1) Noticing the emergency
2) Interpreting an emergency as an emergency
3) Assuming responsibility
4) Knowing what to do
5) Making the decision to help - Pluralistic Ignorance
- the tendency of bystanders in an emergency to rely on what other bystanders do and say, even though none of them is sure about what is happening or what to do about it
- Egoism
- an exclusive concern with one's own personal needs and welfare rather than with the needs of others
- Self-interest
- the motivation to engage in whatever behavior provides the greatest satisfaction
- Moral Integrity
- the motivation to be moral and actually to engage in moral behavior
- Moral hypocrisy
- the motivation to appear moral while doing one's best to avoid the costs involved in actually being moral
- Empathy
- a complex affective and cognitive response to another person's emotional distress (I feel your pain, and I understand your pain)
- Generativity
- an adult's concern for and committment to the well-being of future generations
- Empathy-altruism hypothesis
- the proposal that prosocial behavior is motivated solely by the desire to help someone in need
- Negative-State Relif Model
- prosocial behavior is motivated by the bystander's desire to reduce his or her own uncomfortable negative emotions
- Empathic joy hypothesis
- prosocial behavior is motivated by the positive emotion a helper anticipates experiencing as a result of having a beneficial impact on the life of someone in need
- Genetic Determinism Model
- behavior is driven by genetic attributes that evolved because they enhanced the probability of transmitting one's genes to subsequent generations