Exam 13: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

As described in the textbook, scapegoat theory is most directly linked to ____.

In the ABCs of intergroup relationships, ____ can best be thought of as a behavior.

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

Implicit prejudiced attitudes are ____.

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

Research suggests that stereotyping ____.

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 performing ambiguously on an oral exam. This finding is best explained by the concept of ____.

Researchers Plant and Devine have identified two basic motives that people have to overcome prejudices. One motive, known as the ________________ Motivation to Respond Without Prejudice, is exemplified by the following statement: "Because of my personal values, I believe that using stereotypes is wrong."

The so-called "discontinuity effect" is lessened when ____.

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

Social psychologists use the term ____ to describe the feeling of fear that people sometimes have that they will confirm a certain stereotype.

As discussed in the textbook, people are most likely to base their stereotypes of a given outgroup on ____.

When participants in a research study are presented with a string of letters that they have to decide is a real word or not, they are doing a(n) ____.

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

Describe the so-called "scapegoat theory" of prejudice. What evidence is there for this theory? How else might this evidence be interpreted?

A group of students is working on a puzzle. Each student has two pieces necessary to complete it. All the students want to complete it. This is an example of a(n) ________________.

Which of the following is the best definition of "stereotyping"?

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 ____.

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.

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 ____.