Exam 10: Understanding Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

Which of the following theories proposes that negative feelings between groups are often based on a real conflict or competition over scarce resources?

Wu is Asian,and Thomas believes that Wu will be good in math because "Asian are good at math." This is an example of:

People who have a high tolerance of ambiguity tend to be:

The psychologist Gordon Allport argued that:

According to realistic group conflict theory,negative feelings between groups are often based on:

_____ is the influence on white Americans' racial attitudes by two clashing sets of values: a belief in individualism and a belief in egalitarianism.

People high in _____ hold the belief that the world is ruthlessly competitive and that it is appropriate and right for powerful groups to dominate weaker ones.

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:

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

_____ is the tendency to describe stereotypic behaviors in abstract terms,while describing counterstereotypic behaviors in concrete terms.

People high in _____ are competitively driven to maintain the dominance of some groups over others.

People high in social dominance orientation would most likely support policies that _____ existing hierarchies.

Some Americans look at cultures where families sleep together in a single family bed and proclaim,"That is so wrong;they are spoiling their children." This is an example of:

When people believe that members of another group are human but less emotionally complex than other humans,these people are engaging in:

_____ is the tendency to assume an association between two rare or distinctive occurrences,such as being in a minority group and performing negative actions.

People high in the trait of _____ are prejudiced against those who they regard as threatening to the existing hierarchy of social groups.

Which of the following statements about sexism is TRUE?

Which of the following theories focuses specifically on the cultural value placed on women's appearance?

If you think that you are great,then you tend to think that your group is also great and groups that you do not belong to are not very good.This pride in,and preference for,your own group over others is a natural extension of:

All of the following are true about illusory correlations EXCEPT which statement?