PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Prosocial Behavior, Dream Interpretation, Unconscious Mind
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5-step bystander intervention process: notice event, decide if event is really an emergency. Social comparison see how others are responding: assuming responsibility to intervene. Diffusion of responsibility belief that someone else will help: self-efficacy in dealing with decision, decision to help (based on cost-benefit analysis) Bystander effect presence of multiple bystanders inhibits tendency to help. More likely to help if similar people, based on gender, perceived fairness/responsibility. Social learning media violence likely to increase viewer"s aggressive behavior. Viewers come to believe that aggression is rewarded. Personality distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory: studied hysteria with jean charcot. Believed symptoms were related to repressed memories/feelings. Used free association and dream interpretation: psychic energy and mental events. Instinctual (aggressive drives) generate psychic energy, which causes anxiety + a way to get out.
