Stanley and Barbara Are Talking About How They Can Teach

question 71

Multiple Choice

Stanley and Barbara are talking about how they can teach their children, Andrew and Christine, to be more prosocial. They decide that this weekend they are going to take their children to a local food kitchen and they are going to volunteer as a family. After they do so, the children both ask when they can go back and help again. In this case, Stanley and Barbara have helped inspire prosocial behavior through

• A) ​induction of prosocial acts.
• B) ​providing an opportunity to behave prosocially.
• C) ​disciplinary practices that reward prosocial behavior.
• D) ​modeling prosocial behavior.

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Definitions:

Social Facilitation

Improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others.

Group Polarization

The enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.

Social Loafing

The phenomenon where individuals exert less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone.

Mimicking

Mimicking involves imitating or copying someone else's actions, speech, or expressions, often as a way to learn, fit in, or as a form of social interaction.