Exam 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

Which of the following statements best describes how prejudice and stereotypes affect their targets?

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 ____.

Research on inoculation against the stereotype threat was conducted on ____.

The discontinuity effect refers to ____.

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.

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

If something is said to be "salient," then it ____.

Research suggests that one key way in which non-prejudiced people differ from prejudiced people is that non-prejudiced people are not aware of the negative stereotypes of other groups.

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 ____.

According to the text, at present, the most likely explanation for people's attitudes against lesbians and homosexuals are rooted in ____.

Because realistic conflict theory describes people competing over scarce resources, one could argue that it is simply ____ theory applied to group conflict.

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

Stereotypes are generally quite inaccurate.

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

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

Describe the strategies available to overcome stereotypes and reduce prejudice.

It would be most accurate to say that the majority of stereotypes are ____ and, the majority of stereotypes, when scrutinized, turn out to be ____.

Research on prejudice against lesbian and gay people has shown that, in general, ____.

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 ____.

Szymanski's (2000) research found that black players in the major leagues for English football were paid ____.