Exam 5: Perceiving Groups

If someone is worried about expressing unwanted stereotypic thoughts, should you tell them to suppress those thoughts? Briefly describe 1 study (including the method and results) that explores suppression and rebound of stereotypes about skinheads.

Intergroup interactions arouse the emotions of all parties involved. Provide two reasons why intergroup reactions are so tinged with arousal and anxiety. Next, explain how classical conditioning might play a role in encounters such as these.

According to the research on subtyping described in your text, what happens when perceivers encounter a couple individuals who are completely counterstereotypical?

Research has shown that ______ measures predict one's nonverbal behavior in an interracial interaction and that ______ measures predict one's overt behavior toward an individual of a different race.

In order for a collection of individuals to be categorized as a meaningful social group, both the individual members as well as the people perceiving the group, must agree that the individuals are a part of a social group.

Participants in a study by Wittenbrink, Judd, and Park (2001) were asked to categorize words presented on a computer screen as English or non-English. Some of these words were related to the stereotype of Blacks or Whites. The results showed that:

How do children learn stereotypes?

Even if criminal acts are equally rare among members of a large and small group, perceivers will judge members of the small group to commit more crimes than members of the large group.

Dimi has just taken a reaction time test in which she was asked to categorize positive and negative words and then pictures of male and female faces as quickly as possible. Unbeknownst to Dimi, her unconscious prejudices have just been assessed. It is likely that Dimi just completed a(n) _______ measure.

Macrae et al.'s (1994) study on stereotype suppression found which of the following?

The media should be a great venue to break down, not encourage, gender stereotypes. Research shows that television programs portray _______ and commercials _______.

The contrast effect is most likely to occur when:

Thinking of strong women and weak men can decrease implicit stereotypes.

Which of the following types of contact has been shown to reduce prejudice?

Research on the self-fulfilling prophecy in the classroom shows that teachers will give some students a lot of attention and give them more opportunities to answer questions in class. Research shows that:

All stereotypes are based on a kernel of truth.

Research on media representations of homosexuals has shown that:

In a study by Sagar and Schofield (1980), schoolchildren viewed pictures of Black and White children behaving in ambiguously aggressive ways. The schoolchildren later perceived the behaviors performed by Black children to be more mean and threatening than the same behaviors performed by White children. This study shows that:

How can parents use classical conditioning to teach their children to be non-prejudiced?

Which of the following people will be most likely to use their stereotypes?