Devin Is Offered the Opportunity to Volunteer as a Peer

question 118

Multiple Choice

Devin is offered the opportunity to volunteer as a peer tutor at his college. He kindly accepts the offer and spends half of his limited free time during the rest of the semester helping numerous students improve academically. His roommate asks him why he's spending so much time volunteering, and he replies that he just wants to help, but that he also knows it will help him get in the good graces of his professors. Devin's reason for helping is consistent with the:

• A) social exchange theory.
• B) reciprocity norm.
• C) social responsibility norm.
• D) kinship theory.

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Definitions:

Breakthrough Approach

Innovative or novel strategies that enable overcoming obstacles and achieving significant progress in a field or situation.

Difficult Situations

Circumstances that pose challenges or obstacles that are hard to overcome or deal with.

Escalation Spirals

A process in which a conflict intensifies progressively, often due to actions and reactions of the involved parties, leading to increasingly severe outcomes.

Ultimatums

Final demands or statements of terms, the rejection of which will result in retaliation or a breakdown in relations.