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When your campus has a blood drive, you might weigh the costs (e.g., time, fatigue, needles, etc.) against the benefits (e.g., feeling good, free food, etc.) before deciding to donate. This strategy would be predicted by the
A)social exchange theory.
B)just-world hypothesis.
C)egoism hypothesis.
D)reciprocity norm.
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Skinner argues we only credit people for good deeds when we can't explain them. We attribute behavior to _______________ only when we lack _______________.
A)external explanations; dispositional explanations.
B)dispositions; external explanations.
C)external causes; internal ones.
D)internal causes; dispositional causes.
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The idea that self-interest motivates ALL behavior is
A)social exchange theory.
B)just-world hypothesis.
C)egoism.
D)reciprocity norm.
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After doing something bad and feeling guilty, we are most likely to engage in helpful behavior when _______________
A)our public guilt is greater than our private guilt.
B)our private guilt is greater than our public guilt.
C)no one knows about our misdeeds.
D)others know about our misdeeds.
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Things like neighborhood watch programs, MADD, and other community groups are called
A)social exchanges.
B)social capital.
C)social nuisances.
D)social assets.
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After I lend my neighbor a cup of milk, I feel comfortable asking her to watch my house while I'm on vacation. This is due to my ascribing to
A)social exchange theory.
B)ingratiation.
C)the reciprocity norm.
D)social capital.
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Which culture is more likely to support the social responsibility norm?
A)United States.
B)Europe.
C)Canada.
D)India.
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People will donate bone marrow to people outside their families, in part, because of the
A)social responsibility norm.
B)social exchange theory.
C)the reciprocity norm.
D)kin selection theory.
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One theory for why we see in-group favoritism drawn along ethnic lines is
A)the social responsibility norm.
B)kin selection.
C)the social exchange theory.
D)the reciprocity norm.
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Happy people are
A)helpful people.
B)unhelpful people.
C)helpful to kin, but unhelpful to non-kin.
D)helpful to members of the opposite sex, but unhelpful to same-sexed people.
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When we focus less on our own distress and more on the sufferer's distress, we are experiencing
A)optimism.
B)egoism.
C)empathy.
D)pessimism.
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Latané and Darley argue that people are most likely to help when
A)they notice an incident, interpret it as an emergency, and assume responsibility.
B)they notice an incident.
C)they interpret an incident as an emergency.
D)are with many other people.
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One reason for the occurrence of bystander apathy is
A)the reciprocity norm.
B)the social exchange theory.
C)the social responsibility norm.
D)a diffusion of responsibility.
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Regarding the order of people to receive help from us in life-and-death situations, which of the below orders is correct?
A)children before the old
B)family members before strangers
C)neighbors before strangers
D)all of these
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Omitting certain people from one's circle of moral concern is
A)moral exclusion.
B)ostracism.
C)saving social capital.
D)the overjustification effect.
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Bribing people to do what they already enjoy doing undermines their intrinsic motivation. This is (the)
A)moral exclusion.
B)overjustification effect.
C)reverse psychology.
D)social exchange theory.
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Before agreeing to help out at the homeless shelter, Sharon weighs the costs (e.g., getting up at dawn on a Saturday) and benefits (e.g., feeling good about helping others) of doing so. This strategy would be predicted by
A)the empathy/altruism hypothesis.
B)social exchange theory.
C)the social responsibility norm.
D)social comparison theory.
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When it is close to the holidays, we all often receive many free gifts from charity groups and churches. Generally, after receiving this small token, we feel required to make a donation. This best illustrates
A)the social exchange theory.
B)ingratiation.
C)the reciprocity norm.
D)social capital.
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The tragic murder of Kitty Genovese in New York motivated researchers Latané and Darley to investigate (the)
A)bystander intervention.
B)aggressive behavior.
C)mere exposure effect.
D)social responsibility norm.
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Reciprocity among humans is
A)stronger in rural villages than in big cities.
B)stronger in big cities than in rural villages.
C)rarely seen in individualistic societies.
D)rarely seen in collectivistic societies.







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