Exam 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

The discontinuity effect refers to ____.

The term "salience" can be loosely defined as "that which is flexible or changeable according to the situation."

People who belong to a different category from yourself are ____.

Do implicit or explicit prejudiced attitudes do a better job of predicting workplace discrimination in hiring practices?

In the ABCs of intergroup relationships, B stands for ____.

Jayne firmly believes that prejudice is wrong, and works hard to consciously overcome any stereotypes she feels might interfere with her judgments. Jayne has an External Motivation to Respond without Prejudice.

Which of the following statements best exemplifies Plant and Devine's notion of Internal Motivation to Respond Without Prejudice?

Rudolph is highly prejudiced against homeless people, and frequently blames them for societal problems-even when he has no evidence to support his claims. According to Rudolph, the homeless are responsible for high crime rates, high property values, high taxes, and even high movie theater ticket prices. Given this information, it would appear that Rudolph treats the homeless as ____.

Research on prejudice and self-esteem suggests that ____.

How is social categorization similar to, and different from, the kind of general categorization that people do vis-à-vis objects?

In a well-known study conducted by Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968), schoolteachers were told that certain of their students-who were in fact chosen by the researchers at random-were "intellectual bloomers" and had tremendous academic potential. When these students were tested at the end of the year, it was found that their IQ scores had indeed significantly increased (presumably as a result of the special attention and treatment they had received from their teachers). This research most clearly demonstrates ____.

Research on salaries and racial discrimination in major league 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.

Research has demonstrated that endorsement of traditional stereotypes leads to the oppression of women.

Compared to when two individuals compete, when two groups of people compete, they tend to be extreme and hostile. This is known as ____.

Rationalization of oppression is an explanation for prejudice that focuses on prejudice and stereotyping as tools to ____.

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 ____.

Most people assume that outgroup members are relatively similar to one another, while ingroup members are relatively different from one another. This tendency is known as the  ________________.

Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the relationship between salience and stereotype formation?

You have just accused a friend of yours of being sexist because he said that most women don't know anything about cars. If your friend is like most people, then the next thing he is likely to say is along the lines of ____.

As described in the text, college students sometimes stereotype female professors as less competent than male professors. However, this stereotype only seems to surface ____.