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stevenposner

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Connie is outside raking leaves and watching her son play with some neighborhood children. The children are playing football, and during one play it appears that several children have been injured. Connie rushes over to see if her son is okay first and then attends to the other children. Connie's reaction is best explained by ____.
 
  a. the empathy-altruism helping theory
  b. the arousal: cost-reward theory
  c. evolutionary theory
  d. environmental factors

Question 2

You are stuck on a desert island with a group of people after your three-hour cruise turned into a shipwreck. If you must help only one other person to survive, whom will you choose, according to the evolutionary theory of helping behavior?
 
  a. The Professor, who is most fit
  b. Gilligan, your brother
  c. Maryann, who is the youngest
  d. Thurston, who has the most money


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
c

Answer to Question 2

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b


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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
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