PSYC 2120 Study Guide - Decision-Making, Helping Behavior
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Types of helping: casual helping/emergency helping: involves strangers; relatively easy to perform, substantial helping / emotional helping: involves family or friends; harder to perform, there are three dimensions to helping: The seriousness of the problem (helping someone having a heart attack vs giving someone a phone to use) Helping can either involve you giving what you have or doing what you can . System justification: when people enhance others that are successful, and derogate victims by saying they are unskilled or unmotivated. If someone has a good mood, they are more likely to help; however this good mood helpfulness only last around 10 mins. Volunteerism: volunteerism: unpaid helping behavior to a worthwhile cause or organization (this is part of the substantial-personal helping category, there are five reasons why people volunteer: Humanistic reasons: values: you want to help bc you enjoy it, community concerns: you help a certain organization, bc you feel it is important to contribute to that organization.
