Self-Focus Is LESS Likely to Increase Helping When

question 129

Multiple Choice

Self-focus is LESS likely to increase helping when

• A) we think about a personal problem or failure experience.
• B) we are in a happy mood.
• C) we have high self-esteem.
• D) the person who needs help is similar to us.

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Definitions:

Freud's Psychoanalytic

A theory of personality development, founded by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes unconscious processes, childhood experiences, and sexual and aggressive drives.

Cognitive Perspective

The approach that focuses on the processes that allow people to know, understand, and think about the world.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, a consequence applied that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.