Table 2.
Spontaneity of Prosocial Responses.
| Spontaneity | Total (of 42 participants) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Least spontaneous (3rd cue) | Moderately spontaneous (2nd cue) | Most spontaneous (1st cue) | ||
| Object-centred Helping | 1 | 15 | 26 | n = 42 |
| Social-centred Helping | 5 | 14 | 21 | n = 40 |
| Object-centred Comforting | 9 | 7 | 21 | n = 37 |
| Social-centred Comforting | 9 | 2 | 6 | n = 17 |
The counts in this table represent the number of children in each task that intervened at the specified cue.