PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Motivation, Empathic Concern, Cognitive Load
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Why do people help: learning, arousal, norms, behaviourism: helping is the by-product of the individual"s conditioning history. Prosocial behavior people will help others if they have been inforced in the past. that is were helped in their past. prosocial behair that means benefiting others. > it might have selfish claims: arousal model: a prominent one is the cost- reward model (dovidio et al. , 1991; piliavin et al. , 1981): seeing distress of another person activates arousal, if this arousal is attributed to the other person"s distress unpleasant, therefore person is motivated to reduce the unpleasantness (e. g. , by helping) Cialdini et al. (1987) negative state relief model : arousal isn"t associated with one emotion ( positive and negative, labeling that arousal with a particular emotion, the label that"s generated is cued by situational features. Batson (1991) empathy-altruism hypothesis yes: negative state relief does occur, but, so can perspective-taking, which leads to.
