Exam 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

Aversive racists simultaneously hold egalitarian ____ and negative ____ toward people of other races

Social psychologists use the term ________________ to refer to the unequal treatment of different people based on the groups or categories to which they belong.

Groups are more influenced by competition than individuals are. This effect has been dubbed ____.

In Muzafer Sherif's research with 11-year-old boys at a summer camp in Robber's Cave, it was found that ____ tended to increase prejudice, while ____ tended to reduce it.

According to the textbook, one critical reason why people hold on to their stereotypes-even in the face of refuting evidence-is that they tend to view pieces of refuting evidence as "exceptions," which constitute their own (new)categories. That is, they tend to create ____.

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. This tendency is most related to the so-called ____.

Suppose that Aretha grew up in New York, but currently works in California as a Human Resources Director. While she tries to be unbiased when reviewing job applications, she knows that she has a tendency to favor New York applicants over other applicants. That is, she tends to engage in ____.

Explain what stereotype threat is, and how it affects performance.

To what extent is homosexual behavior "natural"? Research indicates that it occurs ____.

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 ____.

Men tend to be rated less positively when they are seated next to an obese woman than when they are seated next to an average-weight woman. This tendency is known as ____.

Based on the definition of stereotyping given in the textbook, stereotypes can be either positive or negative.

According to the text, when do anti-fat attitudes begin?

Bushman and Bonacci (2004)found that prejudiced participants were ____ likely to return a lost e-mail that had been addressed to someone with an Arab surname as compared to a European-American surname.

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

Having to decide as quickly as possible if a string of words is a real word or not is a(n)________________.

To what degree are stereotypes accurate?

Research suggests that important processes allow American blacks to maintain high self-esteem relative to whites. Which of the following has NOT been shown to help American blacks maintain self-esteem?

The outgroup homogeneity effect appears to stem from the fact that ____.

What does the text suggest about the accuracy of common stereotypes-do they seem to contain a kernel of truth?