Exam 13: Prejudice: Causes, Consequences, and Cures

According to the authors of your text, it is primarily the __________ aspect of prejudiced attitudes that make them relatively impervious to rational or logical arguments.

Some psychological scientists question the interpretations of the Implicit Association Test. Rather than revealing implicit bias, what else might the test be revealing?

In an experiment presented in your text, women were put in a group allegedly to discuss group decision making. One male member (a confederate) repeatedly made sexist remarks. The women who had been previously identified as valuing confronting prejudice, __________.

According to your text, what is one reason why early attempts at desegregation failed?

Given Gordon Allport's (1954) description of the necessary preconditions for contact to reduce prejudice and conflict, why did desegregation efforts as originally enacted fail?

Researchers presented participants with just one or two examples of information that strongly challenged their pre-existing stereotypes. These researchers found that, when presented with just one or two examples that challenge a strongly held stereotype, people __________.

Research has shown that when fate (e.g., a flip of a coin) determines the allocation of rewards for completing a task, participants will often __________.

Prejudice may be maintained by __________ normative rules.

Researchers found that when southerners joined the armed forces and were exposed to less prejudiced norms, they gradually grew less prejudiced themselves. Both of these studies demonstrate one way to study the power of normative pressures: track prejudice and discrimination over time. The studies find that as __________ change, __________.

The text presents a study where participants were asked to evaluate a drug addict for honesty or dishonesty from a scenario provided to them. What did the study show?

Research has shown that when most people are confronted with evidence of an inequitable outcome that is difficult to explain, they will __________.

Alan just met Tina who is from a small rural town in the South. Alan believes that people from the South are narrow-minded, conservatively religious, and prudish. Tina, however, is none of these. What will Alan think?

Blonde jokes display __________.

The underlying reason why social identity threat can undermine the performance of members of a group with respect to some ability is that the experience of social identity threat fosters __________.

Alice's three children are driving her crazy. They are constantly squabbling, calling one another names, and generally tormenting one another. To preserve what's left of her sanity, Alice has decided to try to convince the youngsters to get along. Based on the contact hypothesis, what's the best way to do this?

According to research presented in the chapter, people believe that female jobs require which of the following?

__________ is to affect as __________ is to cognition.

When a member of your in-group performs particularly well in a competition, you most likely __________.

According to the authors, how does a belief in a just world contribute to blaming the victims of injustice?

Which of the following statements is FALSE? Hostility between two groups can be reduced by __________.