Exam 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

Suppose that Paul is gay, but he does not fit your stereotype of gay people: He wears baggy jeans, constantly swears, has sloppy table manners, and enjoys sports. Instead of changing the way you think about gay people as a group, however, you just decide that Paul belongs to a special class of gay people ("gay jocks"). This would be an example of ____.

Researchers Darley and Gross (1983)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 ____.

Researchers have examined whether obese men and women earn less than others, controlling for the same set of qualifications. This has shown that ____.

According to the text, which of the following statements is most accurate regarding prejudice towards Arabs and Muslims living in the United States?

When you meet a new person, stereotypes typically serve to ____.

In a well-known study using archival data, researchers Hovland and Sears found that-in the southern U.S., between 1882 and 1930-there was a statistically significant correlation between the market price of cotton and the frequency of interracial lynching incidents. This study has typically been interpreted as supporting ____.

Francois is at a bar and asks a beautiful woman for her phone number. Suppose the woman rebuffs him and calls him a creep. Which of the following responses BEST exemplifies the outgroup homogeneity bias?

Research using complaints about workplace discrimination as an indicator of discrimination ____.

During the second phase of the Robber's Cave experiment, the boys from the Eagles and the Rattlers had ____ contact with each other.

Josefina thinks that good-looking guys are all aloof and boring. Consequently, when she meets a good-looking guy, she doesn't try very hard to engage him in conversation because she thinks he is aloof and won't respond. Her behavior produces a tendency in good-looking men she meets to respond to her with some degree of aloofness because she isn't very engaging herself. This illustrates the ________________.

Loretta is a Native American female. Which of the following is the BEST example of someone who is an outgroup member to Loretta?

Research suggests that, when it comes to prejudice reduction, direct educational and attitude-change techniques are most effective at dealing with ____.

Discuss Muzafer Sherif's "Robber's Cave" research. What were the different phases of the research, what was found at each stage, and what were the overall conclusions regarding (a)the origins of prejudice and (b)prejudice reduction?

Research suggests that stereotyping ____.

An example of ____ against Native Americans would be the practice of keeping them on reservations instead of letting them live wherever they want.

According to the textbook, is competition something that exists across the world, in all known cultures, or are there cultures that are completely peaceful?

Which of the following is the best definition of "discrimination"?

Countries that value competition generally have ____ levels of conflict and ____ levels of economic success.

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, as discussed in the textbook, 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.

The human mind seems naturally inclined to ____.