Prosocial Behavior Flashcards

Flashcards defining key vocabulary terms related to prosocial behavior, based on lecture notes.

Prosocial behaviour

Positive social consequences, voluntary.

Helping behaviour

Intentional.

Altruism

Selfless, no reward.

Empathy

An emotional response to someone else’s distress. Helping involves identifying what someone else is going through

Bystander calculus model

Physiological responses + cognitive processes = helping behaviour.

Diffusion of responsibility

If alone we accept responsibility.

Audience inhibition

Don’t want to ‘over-react’ (and look silly)!

Social influence

If others are passive our assessment is ‘this is not an emergency’.

Bystander effect

Deciding whether or not to help in Latané and Darley’s cognitive model.