Exam 10: Understanding Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

A stereotype is:

When someone says something about another group such as "they are all the same," that person is exhibiting ______.

Homeless people as a group tend to be perceived as:

Research suggests that Whites show a cardiovascular response associated with threat when they are paired to work with a Black partner. Such research provides evidence for ______.

Stereotypes are:

Media advertisements that showcase African Americans using characteristics associated with animals are examples of ________.

How might the shooter bias influence a police officer's decision to shoot or not shoot at a potential criminal threat?

We often do not have a lot of information about members of outgroups so it is easy for us to:

Infrahumanization:

The ______________ is the idea that people endorse stereotypes in part to justify their own negative affective reactions to outgroup members.

Research indicates that stereotypes tend to be:

Mike does not want his wife to watch a particularly violent movie because he believes women are too pure for that kind of material. This is an example of ________.

______________________ is the tendency to believe that bad actions by outgroup members occur because of their internal dispositions and good actions by them occur because of the situation, while believing the reverse for ingroup members.

When people behave in a negative way because of prejudice or stereotypes they have engaged in ________.

The belief that women are incompetent and push too hard for gender equality is an example of ______.

Research indicates that students who do poorly in their courses evaluate:

Individualism is the idea that:

Ingroups tend to be perceived as:

According to social identity theory, ______________ plays a causal role in ingroup bias.

The idea that members of an ingroup are successful because of their natural disposition best reflects: