PSY 225 Final Exam Questions and
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Altruistic - ✔✔motivated by the desire to improve another's welfare
Audience inhibition - ✔✔reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on observers
Bystander effect - ✔✔the effect whereby the presence of others inhibits helping
Diffusion of responsibility - ✔✔the belief that others will or should take the responsibility for
providing assistance to a person in need
Egoistic - ✔✔motivated by the desire to increase one's own welfare
Empathy - ✔✔understanding or vicariously experiencing another individual's perspective and
feeling sympathy and compassion for that individual
Empathy-altruism hypothesis - ✔✔the proposition that empathic concern for a person in need
produces an altruistic motive for helping
Kin selection - ✔✔preferential helping of genetic relatives, which results in the greater
likelihood that genes held in common will survive
Negative state relief model - ✔✔the proposition that people help others in order to counteract
their own feelings of sadness
Pluralistic ignorance - ✔✔the state in which people in a group mistakenly think that their own
individual thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are different from those of the others in the group
, prosocial behavior - ✔✔actions intended to benefit others
Reciprocal altruism - ✔✔altruism that involves an individual helping another (despite some
immediate risk or cost) and becoming more likely to receive help from the other in return
Reluctant altruism - ✔✔altruistic kinds of behavior that result from pressure from peers or
other sources of direct social influence
Aggression - ✔✔behavior intended to harm someone
Catharsis - ✔✔a reduction of the motive to aggress that is said to result from any imagined,
observed, or actual act of aggression
Corporal punishment - ✔✔physical force (such as spanking or hitting) intended to cause a child
pain, but not injury, for the purpose of controlling or correcting the child's behavior
Culture of honor - ✔✔a culture that emphasizes honor and social status, particularly for males,
and the role of aggression in protecting that honor
Cycle of violence - ✔✔the transmission of domestic violence across generations
Dark triad - ✔✔a set of three traits that are associated with higher levels of aggressiveness:
Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism
Displacement - ✔✔aggressing against a substitute target because aggressive acts against the
source of the frustration are inhibited by fear or lack of access
Frustration-aggression hypothesis - ✔✔the idea that frustration elicits the motive to aggress
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Altruistic - ✔✔motivated by the desire to improve another's welfare
Audience inhibition - ✔✔reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on observers
Bystander effect - ✔✔the effect whereby the presence of others inhibits helping
Diffusion of responsibility - ✔✔the belief that others will or should take the responsibility for
providing assistance to a person in need
Egoistic - ✔✔motivated by the desire to increase one's own welfare
Empathy - ✔✔understanding or vicariously experiencing another individual's perspective and
feeling sympathy and compassion for that individual
Empathy-altruism hypothesis - ✔✔the proposition that empathic concern for a person in need
produces an altruistic motive for helping
Kin selection - ✔✔preferential helping of genetic relatives, which results in the greater
likelihood that genes held in common will survive
Negative state relief model - ✔✔the proposition that people help others in order to counteract
their own feelings of sadness
Pluralistic ignorance - ✔✔the state in which people in a group mistakenly think that their own
individual thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are different from those of the others in the group
, prosocial behavior - ✔✔actions intended to benefit others
Reciprocal altruism - ✔✔altruism that involves an individual helping another (despite some
immediate risk or cost) and becoming more likely to receive help from the other in return
Reluctant altruism - ✔✔altruistic kinds of behavior that result from pressure from peers or
other sources of direct social influence
Aggression - ✔✔behavior intended to harm someone
Catharsis - ✔✔a reduction of the motive to aggress that is said to result from any imagined,
observed, or actual act of aggression
Corporal punishment - ✔✔physical force (such as spanking or hitting) intended to cause a child
pain, but not injury, for the purpose of controlling or correcting the child's behavior
Culture of honor - ✔✔a culture that emphasizes honor and social status, particularly for males,
and the role of aggression in protecting that honor
Cycle of violence - ✔✔the transmission of domestic violence across generations
Dark triad - ✔✔a set of three traits that are associated with higher levels of aggressiveness:
Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism
Displacement - ✔✔aggressing against a substitute target because aggressive acts against the
source of the frustration are inhibited by fear or lack of access
Frustration-aggression hypothesis - ✔✔the idea that frustration elicits the motive to aggress
