Briefly summarize the social exchange perspective of helping behavior

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: According to the social exchange theory, people help others in situations in which they expect that helping will result in more rewards and fewer punishments. This theory suggests that people will not be likely to help when there are high costs and/or low rewards.

Psychology

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Motivation based on the pleasure of the act itself, rather than the reward it might bring, is ____________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Psychology

Looking for properties that words and concepts have in common is a type of elaboration known as:

a. discriminative processing b. generalized processing c. acoustic processing d. relational processing

Psychology

What should be inferred from studies on the relationship between spirituality and positive life outcomes?

A. Spirituality is linked to positive outcomes that are altruistic in nature. B. Positive life outcomes are not enhanced by spirituality. C. Positive outcomes are subjective, making it difficult to understand the influence of spirituality. D. The relationship is nuanced, indicating that spirituality might be bidirectional.

Psychology

Noah is asked if there are more poodles or dalmatians in America. He can quickly think of more examples of poodles than dalmatians because there are lots of poodles in his neighborhood, but not many dalmatians

He estimates that there are more poodles. Noah has most likely used A)the anchoring and adjustment heuristic. B) the false consensus effect. C) the representativeness heuristic. D) the availability heuristic.

Psychology