Exam 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

Let's assume that most high school students have "attitude" at one time or another. Mr. Schmidt, a high school athletic director, is a very prejudiced individual. He usually notices when the black students in school have "attitude" and rarely notices when the white students show "attitude." Consequently, he continues to believe that black students are disrespectful to authority. His tendency to focus on social information in a biased way that supports his prejudiced belief illustrates the ____.

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

Compared to others, obese people tend to be rated as ____.

Jennifer is a student at UCLA. When asked to describe the average UCLA student, she says it is almost impossible to do so because "there are so many different kinds of people at UCLA; the diversity is really amazing." By contrast, when asked to describe the average USC student, Jennifer says: "That's easy; they're all almost exactly the same." Social psychologists would say that Jennifer is displaying what is known as the ____.

Research suggests that black students tend to perform better on academic exams when they experience stereotype threat than when they don't.

Because realistic conflict theory describes people competing over scarce resources, one could argue that it is simply ____ theory Bloom's: Apply to group conflict.

As described in the textbook, scapegoat theory is most directly linked to ____.

Suppose that Jose was born and raised in Mexico, and that-even though he has never been to the U.S.-he holds a number of stereotypes about Americans. According to the text, these stereotypes are most likely based on ____.

In the ABCs of intergroup relationships, ____ can best be thought of as a behavior.

The idea that people blame their problems and misfortunes on outgroups, and hold negative attitudes toward outgroups accordingly, is known as ____.

Aversive racism most captures the idea that ____.

As discussed in the textbook, stereotyping is best thought of as a(n)____.

Implicit prejudices and explicit prejudices are ____ to each other.

Research on prejudice against lesbian and gay people has shown that, in general, ____.

Research concerning prejudice and discrimination against gays and lesbians suggests that ____.

If something is said to be "salient," then it ____.

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

Research on inoculation against the stereotype threat was conducted on ____.

Researchers Plant and Devine have identified two basic motives that people have for overcoming prejudice: internal and external. According to these researchers, the internal motive is based on ____.

People tend to engage in more stereotyping when they are under stress than when they aren't.