What Effect Does Motivation Have on Helping Behaviours

question 38

Multiple Choice

What effect does motivation have on helping behaviours?

• A) People who volunteered due to empathic concern and personal distress volunteered for altruistic reasons.
• B) People who volunteered due to perspective taking volunteered for egoistic reasons.
• C) People who volunteered for altruistic reasons helped for longer periods of time than those who volunteered for egoistic reasons.
• D) People who volunteered for egoistic reasons helped for longer periods of time than those who volunteered for altruistic reasons.

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Logic

The study of reasoning, or the study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.

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The process of assessing or judging the value, nature, character, or quality of something.

Argument

A reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.

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