Exam 10: Understanding Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

Scapegoating is when:

Having negative attitudes about racial category considerations for college admissions may reflect:

Drug addicts as a group tend to be perceived as:

The belief that women are pure and more compassionate than men is an example of ______.

According to intergroup anxiety theory, intergroup prejudice leads people to experience anxiety when they think of or interact with:

Which of the following theories best explains why dominant groups react with hostility toward groups of immigrants when the economy is struggling?

Wealthy people as a group tend to be perceived as:

Groups that are stereotyped as low in warmth and competence elicit ______.

______________________ is viewing the world through our own cultural value system and thereby judging actions and people based on our own culture's views of right and wrong and good and bad.

Research has found that when thoughts of disease are made salient:

How does intergroup anxiety theory extend the ideas of realistic group conflict theory? Include one example in your explanation.

Research indicates that White individuals are more inclined to view a social situation in which one person shoves another person as violent if the person doing the shoving was ______.

Research suggests that we prefer outgroup members to:

Research showing that people see outgroup members as looking very similar to one another provides evidence that ___________________ can influence visual perception.

______________________ is when people who feel inferior, guilty, anxious, or unsuccessful blame an outgroup for their troubles.

Studies indicate that when people are reminded of their mortality they:

Research using the _____________ shows that most Whites and a substantial proportion of Blacks show an implicit association of "Black" with "bad."

The belief that Asian people are good at math is:

Implicit prejudice results when:

Vince grows tired of hearing women talk about how they are paid less than men. He thinks women get paid less because they are less competent. This is an example of ________.