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Managing Traffic
QUESTION
Try to also engage in helping behavior yourself. Let the person cut ahead of you in line in traffic, hold the door open for those reaching the entrance at the same time, make breakfast for your partner or kids if they normally do that, etc. Take notes throughout your experiment on the scenario, your behavior, and the response of others. Then, create a PowerPoint to describe your analysis of the results. Specifically, be sure to include: A detailed description of at least three prosocial behaviors you engaged in and/or observed others exhibit. An analysis of the impact of your behaviors on you. How did you feel? What impact did the experiences have on your outlook for the day? Stress levels? Thoughts? Perceived levels of aggression? An analysis of the impact of helping behaviors on others. How did they feel? What impact did the experiences seem to have on their outlook for the day? Stress levels? Thoughts? Perceived levels of aggression? An analysis of at least two social psychology principles or theories discussed in class as they relate to your observations Make use of presentation best practices Include visuals (images, video, graphs, etc.) that support your text Use the speaker's notes to expand upon your bullet points or main ideas in the presentation. Cite any sources used on the slide itself with an in-text citation as well as in your full reference list on the reference slide.
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Answer
Engaging in Helping Behavior
Introduction
The pro-social behaviors are behaviors intended to help other people. the actions are characterized with a concern to have the right feeling and helping others. They include holding door for other to pass, preparing breakfast for your partner, and allowing someone to cut ahead of you in traffic among others.
I was walking through a busy mall with a single entrance, I was the first to get through the door, and I decided to hold it open for the others. I felt the drive to hold the door and allow others to pass, since it was difficult passing through the door as you hold it and drop it for the person behind you. I wanted to make those behind me have an easy time passing through the door.
I sneaked out of bed ahead of my partner and decided to give her a breakfast surprise. I headed straight to the kitchen. I made her breakfast and invited her to the living room when the breakfast was ready. I do not like cooking and my partners understand that. I though it was time to relieve her of everyday kitchen activity that she volunteered to be doing.
One driver drove past my vehicle in a bid to overtake me and speed forward. Unfortunately, there was an oncoming truck. I allowed him to get ahead of me to prevent an accident from happening. Though I felt it was rude for the driver to overtake me when the road was not clear, it was important to show kindness.
The behaviors had serious impact on me. I felt happy for doing good to others and it had serious impact on my outlook for the day. Beside, my stress levels reduced and I experienced calmness through the day.
The behavior made me feel better. I was happy and active throughout the rest of the day. Besides, I was motivated to continue doing more good things. My approach to other activities within the day changed. I was more satisfied and active.
Doing good impact the outlook for the day in various ways. It ensures that an individual leads the day with a smiling face, enhance positive engagement with others, and uplifting my spirit. High spirit is an indication of inner fulfillment of individuals. the negative energy that could have affected me were turned to positive experience.
Doing good helps in managing stress levels by focusing on positive things, enabling me to connect with my values and taking relevant action in every instance. Engagement with other people improves, and I had positive perception to various aspects of life.
There are various social psychological theories that relate to the topic of study. They include drive theory and action identity theory.
People think in terms of consequences of their behavior (Hogg, 2020). That is, an action is maintained in respect to proponent identity. The identification of an action results to its performance. According to the theory, people conceptualize their actions optimally through thinking and how human actions connects to emotions. For instance, how doing good would make someone happy. It suggests how our actions are influenced by social influence.
Drive theory assert that people are created with the need to do good and the drive is reduced when an individual engages in the need (Brown, 2020). The drive to help people is contained only after helping someone. A drive creates an unpleasant state and people are only relieved after they complete certain activities. For instance, drive to do good dies after doing good to some people.
Conclusion
- Helping others is a pro-social behavior that have therapeutic influence on individuals. People feel happy and satisfied. Besides, it makes people to have a more positive view of life. Social psychological theories such as drive and action identity theory are used to explain human behavior towards helping others.
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