Exam 3: Reducing Prejudice: How Achievable? How Important?

To be effective,intergroup contact must meet all the following conditions EXCEPT:

Persuasive communication is effective when prejudice is meeting some personality need.

A recent study found that those people who are least likely to stereotype minorities as lazy were the most likely to be opposed to welfare programs.

Which of the following is an advantage of required college courses in intergroup relations?

The rate of theft is high in a department store and a clerk has been warned that it must stop or the clerk could lose his job.The boss has also told the clerk that Mexican Americans are likely to shoplift and are probably responsible for most of the thefts in the store.So the clerk follows Mexican Americans around the store.This behavior is best explained by:

How have racial attitudes in this country changed from the 1940's to the most recent polls?

The prospect for changing a strongly prejudiced person through persuasion is usually very good.

Persuasive communication can be defined as any communication-written,oral,audiovisual,or whatever-that is specifically intended to influence attitudes,beliefs,or behaviors.

The effectiveness of persuasive communication in reducing prejudice depends upon all of the following except one.Which is NOT true?

The addition of the internet has broadened the range of antiprejudice communications available:

The city of Boston experienced intense conflict and a number of violent incidents during the implementation of a school desegregation plan in the 1970s.Which of the following is a characteristic of neighborhoods where the conflict was most intense?

Exercises that set up a situation in which people experience discrimination and learn about the feelings that result from being discriminated against,and that point out the irrationality of prejudice and discrimination are called:

If a person is prejudiced mainly as a result of social learning or pressure for conformity what would be the best way to change that prejudice?

Research suggests that the most important factor for bringing about long-term attitude changes through the use of persuasive communication is the:

Contact that intensifies fear often makes prejudiced people even more prejudiced.

According to Merton's topology of prejudice and discrimination which type of person is unprejudiced and does not discriminate?

A problem with the use of education to reduce prejudice,in terms of self-selection is that at the college level people who take courses in majority-minority relations or related topics are probably:

Studies have shown that people living in integrated housing projects are more prejudiced even though they interact more regularly with persons of the opposite race than people who live in racially segregated housing projects.

The trend in Southern racial attitudes since segregation laws were declared unconstitutional,suggest that:

According to Merton's typology of prejudice and discrimination which type of person is prejudiced but does not discriminate?