In one study, students from one school were asked to help students at another school. When the school to be helped had scored higher than the school of students asked to help, students offered more help to the school that was doing better than they were

This is called _______.
A) kinship selection
B) reciprocal altruism
C) competitive altruism
D) defensive helping
E) empathic joy


Answer: D

Psychology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

Since the early 1990s, the decline in the death rate from AIDS has slowed. Why?

A. drug treatments designed to treat AIDS can cause other fatal diseases B. a change in the definition of AIDS C. the incidence of homosexuality has started to increase again D. HIV has developed resistance to many of the drug treatments

Psychology

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Psychology