Prosocial Behavior: How Gender and Culture Predict Helping”

 “Prosocial Behavior: How Gender and Culture Predict Helping” 

The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a Christian story about compassion which has had significant cultural influence.

Think about and answer the following two questions:

1 - How might the term and concept of schemas relate to prosocial behavior?
2 - How might schemas affect your “Motivated Self” toward being prosocial or not?

1 - How might the term and concept of schemas relate to prosocial behavior?

Mental constructs in the social sciences, used by a person for organizing intelligence and guiding cognitive behavior and processes. People categories objects and events on the basis of basic elements and attributes using schemas (plural schema) and thereby view and forecast the universe. For, pro-social activity only in the state of high success was expected. The results suggest that self-schemes will control actions if participants are conscious of themselves. The donor opportunity to influence their behavior can therefore demand greater salience. The schema would be part of the experiential, implicit, emotional and rudimentary, being similar to theories about the motivated self, the world and the relationships between the two, including the relationships with others (Paciello et al., 2013). In this way, we could affirm that these sets of beliefs would be and would works active and dynamic models, similar to the concept of active internal models of the theory of attachment, which states that the child develops a vision of the self, others and relationships based on their experience with caregivers. Thus, the experiential beliefs would be of a more general and abstract level, and would affirm appositive vision of the world, others and the self. Prosocial Behavior, Gender, Culture, Helping, Schema, Motivated Self

2 - How might schemas affect your “Motivated Self” toward being prosocial or not?

The fundamental beliefs about the world, social relations and the self. There are a number of universal assumptions about themselves and the environment as well as others, which are fundamentally and tacit, are routinely dependent on the subjective reality and aim to stay powerful even despite the proof that does not justify it). Thus, for example, even though people are agreed that the environment is unjust in terms of the ration, and so show it in cases of unhappiness, which cannot be remedied, and which leads to emotional activation, they have a tendency to assign blame in part to the perpetrator. The predisposition to react more rapidly and intensely to negative events has been proposed as an evolutionary basis: the cost of missing opportunity or resources is less than that of unawares threats; thus, this predisposition to the negative is chosen as an adaptive feature in the growth of the species