Social psychology: Prosocial behaviour and helping

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1. According to the social exchange theory, helping behaviour is motivated by...

  • Feeling empathy
  • Maximising rewards and minimising costs
  • Social norms
  • Observing the behaviour of others
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2. Evolutionary origins of helping behaviour assume that...

  • There is a preference for helping those we consider useful for society
  • There is a preference for helping blood relatives
  • There is a preference for helping our children
  • There is a preference for helping the young and healthy

3. Helping behaviour:

  • acts where people voluntarily and intentionally behave in a way they believe will benefit others
  • an act which benefits others but is not expected to have any personal benefits
  • actions that are generally valued by other people in a particular society

4. According to the bystander intervention decision tree, how many steps are there to helping in an emergency?

  • 8
  • 5
  • 10
  • 3

5. Social learning theory led to which theory of the origin of helping behaviour?

  • Social norms
  • Modelling
  • Social exchange
  • Altruism

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