Exam 10: Intergroup Relations

If newcomers to a society highly value maintaining their original cultural identity AND also highly value contact/participation with larger society, they are using the acculturation strategy of ____________________.

A strategy that works to create unilateral and persistent efforts to establish trust and cooperation between competing groups is known as

The United States has often been termed as a "melting pot". According to Berry (2001), this suggests that the larger society is seeking

According to Berry (2001), if newcomers to a society highly value maintaining their original cultural identity but do not highly value contact/participation with larger society, they are using the acculturation strategy of

Like many other people at the football game, Mark and Len painted their faces with their team's colours. During the game, they tossed their empty soft drink cups at other attendees. According to the concept of deindividuation, their behaviour is likely a result of

What can mediation often lead to?

Brendan has Irish heritage and sometimes feels sorry for all the people in the world who are not Irish. This tendency is called

Janna felt very fortunate to be hired as a summer student at the biology lab. However, she recently found out that one of the other students is being paid $1 more per hour. Now Janna is much less satisfied with her job. Janna is experiencing

Describe realistic conflict theory and relative deprivation theory. Give examples of each.

According to Berry (2001), if newcomers to a society highly value maintaining their original cultural identity AND also highly value contact/participation with larger society, they are using the acculturation strategy of

Marisa, who coaches a junior high school soccer team, is concerned because some team members occasionally "play dirty". Marisa, who has taken a social psychology course, thinks that the cause may be the anonymity given to the players by their team uniforms. What would be a good way for Marisa to decrease deindividuation?

Bargaining that involves using a neutral third party to facilitate communication and make suggestions to reach a final resolution is known as _________.

Leon is a Latino college freshman randomly assigned to share a room with Tim, a White college freshman. What type of intervention is his college using to decrease racism on campus?

According to the social identity theory, people favour their ___________ over their _____________ in order to enhance their self-esteem.

According to Runciman (1966), what are the two forms of relative deprivation?

Which of the following is not a common view regarding negotiation in collectivistic cultures?

According to realistic conflict theory, what causes animosity between different groups?

The tendency to believe that one's own ethnic or cultural group is preferable to others is known as ______________________.

When irrational or violent acts sweep through a crowd of people, this is termed

In research that examined teams with varying ratios of males to females, Kanter (1997) found that three perceptual phenomena influenced group dynamics: