Hillei Arghandewal Question What is Prosocial behavior? How does Prosocial behavior differ from Altruism? Prosocial behavior is essential to the make up of a socially resilient society. What are the three elements of prosocial behavior? What are three types of prosocial behavior? Does it matter if someone is watching? Answer Prosocial behavior are voluntary actions intended to benefit another individual or a group of people such as the society. Altruism is helping an individual in need to get out of their distress situation. Prosocial behavior refers to the activity resulting from the individuals’ altruistic feelings. Explanation The concept behind prosocial behavior is that it arises as a consequence of a person’s behavior rather than the motivations behind the actions. For example, an individual makes an anonymous donation to a person, group or institution without any resulting recognition, political or economic gain; here, the donation is the prosocial action and the altruism is what motivates the doer to action. People who usually donate funds or ● Ability to recognize other materials to others are those another individual’s who understand the challenges problem ● Ability to determine the these individuals go through. For example, when a person donates cause of that problem blankets and food to a flood victim, ● Motivation to help it is because they understand the them overcome the situation these people are currently problem undergoing and empathize with them. An example of helping is offering ● Helping deliberate effort such as stopping to ● Sharing help a motorist change their tire. ● Donating An example of sharing is baking cookies and sharing with friends in school or particularly the less fortunate. An example of donations is giving food to immigrants in concentration camps. Individuals willing to help Any act of helping, sharing, or should do voluntarily. donating should be done out of personal effort and not due to expected appreciation or benefits set to be enjoyed later. The manner in which the social perceiver’s thoughts, emotions and behaviors change in the presence of others is the definition of (A) Social influence (B) Social cognition (C) Obedience (D) Conformity Social influence is an umbrella term that encompasses both conformity and obedience. Social cognition is different to social influence in that social cognition is not limited to processes that occur in the presence of others. Which one of the following does not relate to social psychology? (A) The science of social psychology began when scientists first started to systematically and formally measure the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of human beings (B) The field of social psychology is growing rapidly and is having an increasingly important influence on how we think about human behavior. (C) The way that we see other people (and the way we think they see us) can play a powerful role in a wide variety of actions and decisions. (D) All of the above Social psychology is broad and encompass a wide range of social topics including: Group behavior Social perception Leadership Nonverbal behavior Conformity Aggression Prejudice All the above statements relate to social psychology and provide insights on the different ways to define the topic.
