prosocial behavior

Examples of prosocial behavior in the following topics:

• Altruism: Helping

  • Voluntary behavior with the intent to help other people is known as prosocial behavior.
  • The social-exchange theory argues that altruism only exists when the benefits outweigh the costs—i.e., when your behavior helps you even more than it helps the other person.

• Careers in Psychology

  • Similar to clinical psychology in many respects, counseling psychology focuses on the assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral disorders.
  • It focuses on the psychology of the workforce, including issues such as recruitment, selecting employees from an applicant pool, performance appraisal, job satisfaction, work behavior, stress at work, and management.
  • School psychology combines principles from educational psychology and clinical psychology to understand and treat students with learning disabilities, foster the intellectual growth of gifted students, facilitate prosocial behaviors in children, and otherwise promote a safe, supportive, and effective learning environment.
  • This subfield focuses on the biological aspects of behavior and mental processes, and there are different specialties within this subfield.
  • Comparative psychology is the scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of nonhuman animals, especially as they relate to adaptive significance and the development of behavior, which can lead to a deeper and broader understanding of human psychology.

• Socioemotional Development in Childhood

  • The ability to identify with the feelings of another person helps in the development of prosocial (socially positive) and altruistic (helpful, beneficent, or unselfish) behavior.
  • Altruistic behavior occurs when a person does something in order to benefit another person without expecting anything in return.

• Examples of Modeling

  • Try to use action verbs that describe observable behavior.
  • Repeating the behaviors, and/or including written labels or descriptions of the vital behavior in the modeling display
  • The student must not only get the idea of the behaviors to perform but she/he must also get the muscular feel of behavior.
  • Behavior Modeling Training.
  • L. (1999) Modeling Strategies for Prosocial Television: A Review.

• Employee Role in Preventing and Addressing Unethical Behavior

• Classical Conditioning in Behavioral Therapy

• Operant Conditioning in Behavioral Therapy

• Behavioral Therapies

• Consumer Behavior and Advertising

• Introduction to Animal Behavior

  • Behavior is the change in activity of an organism in response to a stimulus.
  • Behavioral biology is the study of the biological and evolutionary bases for such changes.
  • One goal of behavioral biology is to distinguish the innate behaviors, which have a strong genetic component and are largely independent of environmental influences, from the learned behaviors, which result from environmental conditioning.
  • Innate behavior, or instinct, is important because there is no risk of an incorrect behavior being learned.
  • These behaviors are “hard wired” into the system.