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schs14

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on: Jun 22, 2018
Suppose that you encounter a potential emergency situation in which someone needs help. How might the presence of other bystanders as sources of information about helping influence your decision to help?
 
  Give an example of an emergency situation and describe how the presence of other people might influence the likelihood of receiving help.
 
  FIll in the blank with correct word.

Question 2

What is perspective taking, and how, according to Batson, might it relate to pure, selfless, altruism?
 
  FIll in the blank with correct word.


Sophiapenny

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: Students should focus on how the presence of others might decrease the likelihood that we would help, because we look to them to decide if helping is needed. Here, students should discuss the phenomenon of pluralistic ignorance.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Perspective taking: the process of mentally putting oneself in another's position. Batson argues that taking another's perspective is necessary for purely altruistic helping to occur.


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