PP Week 6 TRA

Humans evolved the capacity to form coalitions and to work together to influence change that benefits the broader group

• True

• False

Humans have evolved

• self-interested features

• group-interested features

• to form coalitions

• all of these

"In order to want to help other people, you must first imagine yourself in their situation and feel their pain." This statement summarizes the ________ model of prosocial behavior.

• empathy-altruism

• arousal: cost-reward

• reciprocal altruism

• kin selection

Which of the following is a traditional female gender role that might impact one's tendency to offer specific types of assistance?

• women are compassionate

• women are heroic

• women are chivalrous

• women like to take physical risks

Annette has provided assistance to others in the past and believes she can be useful to other people. As a result, she is more likely to than others to provide assistance to others in the future. Annette would rate high on a measure of _______.

• helpfulness

• other-oriented empathy

• conscientiousness

• past-future consistency

Showing favoritism for helping one's own blood relatives is called ________.

• kin selection

• genetic preference

• the familial empathy effect

• hereditary augmentation

A person who is high in the characteristic of other-oriented empathy would be most likely to make which of the following statements?

• "we have a moral obligation to help others when they are in need"

• "do as I say, not as I do"

• "each person is uniquely responsible for his or her own situation"

• "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

Engaging in actions that benefit another person is called ________behavior.

• prosocial

• social

• empathetic

• sympathetic

Is there a difference between the likelihood that men or women will provide help when it is needed?

• no, the general levels of helpfulness are pretty much equivalent between the sexes.

• yes, women tend to provide help far more rapidly than men

•  

  yes, men tend to provide help far more rapidly than women

• sort of, as sex differences in helping depend on whether there is a genetic relationship to the person in need

Humans evolved the capacity to form coalitions and to work together to influence change that benefits the broader group

• True

• False