Exam 13: Prejudice: Causes and Cures

Marc and Barbara are part of a study group that gathers for lunch.They like sushi,but the other two members of the study group do not.Over time,Marc and Barbara come to feel that the other members do not work as hard as they do and are less friendly.This may be an effect of Marc and Barbara forming a(n)

Galen Bodenhausen (1988)had college student participants play the role of jurors in a mock trial.He found that something as simple as ____ evoked dispositional attributions and caused jurors to ignore extenuating circumstances in the case.

The bogus pipeline is an instrument that was developed to measure attitudes that are otherwise difficult to measure because

Findings in research on stereotype activation suggest that for many people,

If someone from Texas and someone from Massachusetts were asked about their stereotypes of Hollywood actors,they would probably have remarkably similar stereotypes.This is because stereotypes are perpetuated in a culture on a large scale through

According to the justification-suppression model presented in your text,once a person is able to find valid justification for disliking a group,they are more likely to

According to Patricia Devine's (1989)experimental research on prejudice and information processing,how are prejudiced people like nonprejudiced people? How are they different?

According to social-psychological research,someone who would score high on modern racism

When third-grade teacher Jane Elliot sorted schoolchildren based on eye color,she created

Which of the following would pose the biggest problem for a biological approach to prejudice? We

When Gordon Allport (1954)described stereotyping as "the law of least effort," he was suggesting that stereotypes arise

Ernest Campbell and Thomas Pettigrew (1959)discovered that many ministers who supported desegregation in Little Rock,Arkansas did not use their pulpits to air their (unpopular)views for fear of losing contributions and church members.This is a real world example of the power of ____ to exacerbate prejudice and discrimination.

Jessica isn't invited to a Super Bowl party her coworkers are throwing because she's a woman.Jessica is experiencing ____ from her coworkers.

As the only African American in his class,LaMonte tends to worry about committing errors because he does not want his white counterparts to think that all African Americans are intellectually inferior.LaMonte is experiencing

In their classic "doll studies" with African-American children,social psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark (1947)demonstrated the negative effects of prejudice on ____ even early in life.

Research has shown that when fate (e.g.,a flip of a coin)determines the allocation of rewards for completing a task,participants will often

Why would something as apparently innocuous as a defendant's name influence the inferences and decisions of mock jurors in the experiment by Galen Bodenhausen (1988)?

Research with elementary school girls and boys (Nichols,1975)has revealed that girls tend to make ____,whereas boys tend to make ____.

Alice's three children are driving her crazy.They are constantly squabbling,calling one another names,and generally tormenting one another.To preserve what's left of her sanity,Alice has decided to try to convince the youngsters to get along.She promises them that she will take them to a funny movie if they will work together to clean their playroom in under thirty minutes.Which of the preconditions for reducing conflict does this illustrate?

There is some evidence that there is at least a shred of truth underneath the stereotypes that African Americans are more athletic than Caucasians.One example of such evidence is that