Exam 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

Randi believes that, compared to white people, Asian people are spiritual. Randi's belief is BEST characterized as an example of ____.

Max is on a date with Ella. Ella is an obese woman. People around Max look at him as if he is less successful than he actually is because he is on a date with an obese woman.  This is an example of ________________. ​

In the ABCs of Intergroup Relationships: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotypes, B stands for ____.

In the contemporary United States, in general, ____ have the highest levels of self-esteem, followed by ____, followed by ____.

Research suggests that, by and large, stereotypes function as ____. ​

The discontinuity effect is lessened when ____.

Scapegoat theory is MOST directly linked to ____.

Which of the following comes closest to the conclusion regarding the elimination of prejudice?

It would be MOST  accurate to say that the majority of stereotypes are ____, and when scrutinized, they turn out to be ____.

Research suggests that black students tend to perform better on academic exams when they experience stereotype threat than when they do not.

Research on salaries and racial discrimination in the major leagues of English football suggests that teams that engaged in racial discrimination had to pay ____ overall to attain the same win-loss record as achieved by a team with black players.

A group of students is working on a puzzle. Each student has two pieces necessary to complete it. All the students need to complete the puzzle. This is an example of a(n)________________.

Research has demonstrated that eyewitnesses are more accurate at identifying people of their own racial or ethnic group than they are at identifying people of other ethnic or racial groups. However, one exception to this pattern is when a member of the other group appears to be ____. In that case, he or she is well remembered and well recognized.

One explanation for people's anti-gay attitudes toward homosexual men and women are rooted in ____.

Suppose that Madison has just begun dating Wayne. While at his house, she notices some family photos on the coffee table. She notices that-even though Wayne himself is not overweight-every other member of his family is clearly obese. Somehow, this makes Wayne seem less attractive to Madison. Madison's attitude illustrates ____. ​

The idea that regular interactions among members of different groups reduce prejudice, so long as the interactions occur under favorable conditions, is known as ____. ​

White people who are prejudiced against blacks but externally motivated to respond without prejudice tend to behave in unprejudiced ways when trying to look good or say the right thing in the presence of others. Right after being released from such pressure, they ____.

Researchers showed different groups of people identical videotape footage of Hannah, a girl who was said to come either from an impoverished background or from a wealthy background. They found that people stereotyped the girl as intellectually inferior when they were led to believe that she came from an impoverished background. However, this stereotype emerged only when participants saw footage of Hannah performing ambiguously on an oral exam. This finding is BEST  explained by the concept of ____.

The ____ is a cooperative learning technique developed to reduce feelings of prejudice and intergroup competition.

Research examining whether women and men are more or less tolerant of female lesbian behavior versus male gay behavior has found that ____. ​