SOP-3004 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Prosocial Behavior, Inclusive Fitness, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Prosocial behavior: any action intended to benefit another person. The internal benefits is what you get or feel from helping someone else. Inclusive fitness says care about successfully getting genes to the next generation. Not only in our own offspring, but also other families genes passing onto the next generation. In the study: researchers wanted to know which of the twin sets had more similar helping behavior patterns. At 14 months, identical twins are more similar in helping patterns. When people learn or believe helping is beneficial they help more. College student study: focused on the idea that econ majors learn people exploit others as seen in economic classes. We tend to see anyone that we grew up around during childhood as relatives or our ingroups even if we aren"t related by blood. (1) also consider people similar to our family. (2)
