Question 1

Devon and Yvonne are from England, James is from France, and Tikh is a man from India. Which one of these people is most likely to support and act on the norm of social responsibility?

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A)   Yvonne
B)   Devon and James are equally likely to act on it, and more likely than Yvonne or Tikh
C)   Devon and Yvonne are equally likely to act on it, and more likely than James or Tikh
D)   TikhE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 2

In staging physical fights between a man and a woman, Shotland and Straw found that bystanders intervened only 19 percent of the time when the woman shouted,

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A)   "Get away from me, I don't know you!"
B)   "Get away from me, I don't know why I ever married you!"
C)   "Get away from me, I have a gun!"
D)   "Get away from me, you're drunk!"E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 3

Which of the following is an effective way to increase helping behaviour?

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A)   Reduce the ambiguity of the situation
B)   Model prosocial behaviour
C)   Make people feel guilty
D)   All of these choicesE) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

According to social-exchange theory, the rewards that motivate helping are

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A)   internal or external.
B)   internal only.
C)   external only.
D)   consciously recognized before the act of helping.E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 5

Marcus falls down and hurts his ankle on a busy city street. In which of the following locations, according to research by Levine, is he most likely to be helped?

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A)   Sofia, Bulgaria.
B)   Rome, Italy.
C)   Stockholm, Sweden.
D)   Tel Aviv, Israel.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 6

According to Darley and Latané, even if people notice an event that they realize to be an emergency, _______________ in the presence of other bystanders can inhibit helping.

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A)   pluralistic ignorance
B)   diffusion of responsibility
C)   self-presentation concerns
D)   anxietyE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 7

On a larger scale, service learning and volunteer programs woven into a school curriculum have been shown to

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A)   increase later citizen involvement, social responsibility, cooperation, and leadership.
B)   decrease citizen involvement, social responsibility, cooperation, and leadership.
C)   promote the self-perception that one is caring and helpful, which in turn promotes further helping.
D)   both A and C.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 8

We are more likely to help those with similar beliefs to ourselves due to the

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A)   familiarity bias.
B)   similarity bias.
C)   credibility effect.
D)   complementarity effect.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 9

According to the text, which theory of altruism provides a coherent scheme for summarizing a variety of observations?

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A)   social norms
B)   social exchange
C)   evolutionary
D)   all of these choicesE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 10

Who among the following psychologists believes that genuine empathy-induced altruism is part of human nature?

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A)   Darley
B)   Schaller
C)   Cialdini
D)   BatsonE) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 11

According to your text, labelling someone as a helpful person will

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A)   strengthen their helpful self-image and make them more likely to help in the future.
B)   make them more aware of their behaviour and restrict their helping behaviour.
C)   be associated with positive emotions which decreases helpfulness in emergencies.
D)   make them self-conscious about helping and decrease helpfulness.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 12

In observing people's responses to staged emergencies, John Darley and Bibb Latané found that _____________ greatly decreased intervention.

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A)   social alienation
B)   a lack of empathy
C)   the presence of other bystanders
D)   self-concernE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 13

The "feel bad-do good" effect occurs most among

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A)   children.
B)   adults who are self-focused and preoccupied.
C)   adults who are focused on others.
D)   none of these choices.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 14

Research by Bickman and colleagues shows that

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A)   over-the-telephone comments substantially boosted reporting witnessed crimes.
B)   face-to-face comments substantially boosted reporting witnessing crimes.
C)   mail comments substantially boosted reporting witnessing crimes.
D)   all of these choices.E) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 15

Sylvain has just started to attend a very large university. Walking across campus one day he sees a young man trying to carry too many heavy books. According to your text, Sylvain is most likely to help if

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A)   the man looks like another student rather than a professor.
B)   the man is very attractive.
C)   Sylvain is late for class.
D)   the man is Sylain's new next-door neighbour.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 16

A major weakness of social-exchange theory is that it

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A)   is impossible to test experimentally.
B)   fails to account for the reciprocal exchange of favours.
C)   easily degenerates into explaining-by-naming.
D)   ignores the role of internal self-rewards in motivating altruism.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 17

Darley and Latané set up an experiment in which participants listening over headphones heard another participant suffering a seizure and crying for help. Of participants who believed there were _____ other witnesses, _____ sought to help the victim.

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A)   no; none
B)   no; 85 percent
C)   no; 31 percent
D)   four; 85 percentE) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 18

Altruism's ultimate goal is to

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A)   contribute to another's welfare.
B)   contribute to one's own welfare.
C)   contribute to one's own welfare as well as another's welfare.
D)   diminish one's own welfare.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 19

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Question 20

About 15 people are waiting at a bus stop after dark. Flames suddenly begin to shoot out the window of a house across the street. Someone instantly calls the fire department while several other people run across the street to alert those in the house. Why did the bystander effect not occur in this situation?

Accepted Answer

A)   Everyone is afraid of fire.
B)   The bystander effect did occur.
C)   It was after dark and therefore people were more willing to help.
D)   The situation was clearly an emergency.E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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