Define prosocial behaviors and discuss the gender differences in prosocial behavior found by recent research.
What will be an ideal response?
Prosocial behaviors are behaviors that help another person without expectation of any reward or gain on the part of the helper. Adolescent girls engage in more prosocial behavior than adolescent boys do. Adolescent girls report more emotional, dire, compliant, and altruistic behavior than boys, while boys engage in more public prosocial behavior.
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a. therapeutic encounter groups. b. humanistic family therapy. c. large-group psychodrama training. d. large-group awareness training.
Output from the amygdala to the ____ modifies approach and avoidance responses.
A. brain stem B. hypothalamus C. prefrontal cortex D. basolateral nuclei
Recording police interrogations can improve the quality of interrogations by A. helping to ensure that police detectives are not coercive when interrogating
B. helping to ensure that suspects cannot inappropriately claim to have been coerced during interrogation. C. both of the above D. none of the above
According to the authors, psychology is a method for
A) determining simple answers to complex questions. B) acquiring more insight into the hows and whys of human behavior. C) knowing how to turn people from maladaptive to adaptive actions, feelings, and thoughts. D) restating commonsense findings in a more convoluted manner.