Deck 8: The Political Psychology of Race

Question 1

A negative evaluative orientation toward a group and consequently an aversion to group members is known as

A)realistic conflict
B)prejudice
C)cultural bias
D)racism

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Politicaly, Asian Americans tend to

A)be more liberal than conservative
B)be almost entirely conservative
C)consider themselves as having no party affiliation
D)not participate in politics at all

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center was well known for

A)Bankrupting the Aryan nations
B)Defending white supremacist groups
C)Harboring fugitives from militant black groups
D)Running David Duke's campaign

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is generally not true of all White Supremacist groups?

A)They have a deep seated hatred of government officials
B)They have an obsessive suspicion of government
C)They believe in antigovernment conspiracy theories
D)They believe in Christian Identity

Question 5

William Pierce, the founder of the National Alliance was best known for his book:

A)The Satanic Verses
B)The history of Whites
C)The Turner Diaries
D)he did not write a book

Question 6

The notion that true decendants of the Israelites are White Europeans is called

A)Racial Dominance
B)White Supremacy
C)Christian Identity
D)Symbolic Racism

Question 7

Which of the following is not true about recruitment in White Supremacist groups?

A)Women leaders are especially important
B)Leaders tend to be men and women play a support role
C)Members tend to be drawn from lower and middle classes
D)most members are men

Question 8

A website that performs the function of linking White Supremacist groups to each other worldwide is

A)Naitonal front
B)Storm front
C)White power front
D)Aryan front

Question 9

In the post military era in the late 1970s, Brazil began to experience the following

A)A joint-movement of Whites and Blacks to combat immigration
B)A harmonious racial state
C)A challenge to the myth of racial harmony by Whites
D)A newly mobilized Afro-Brazilian movement

Question 10

In South Africa, the system which divided people across racial categories was called

A)Coloreds
B)Afrikaner
C)Caste system
D)Aparheid

Question 11

The South African president responsible for first announcing sweeping changes with regard to racial inequality was

A)F.W. deKlerk
B)Nelson Mandela
C)Arial Sharon
D)Frederick Johnson

Question 12

Studies from the apartheid era show that Black Africans

A)Resented only whites, not Afrikaners
B)Believed that the apartheid era was just
C)Resented their power of Afrikaners more than English-speaking whites
D)Believed that only whites and Afrikaners were fit to govern South Africa

Question 13

The belief by some White supremacists that at some divinely appointed time in the future, the world as we know it will end through a cataclysmic confrontation between good and evil forces is known as

A)Aryan supremacy
B)Satanic destruction
C)The Order
D)Apocalypticism

Question 14

The use of prejudices and preexisting beliefs in evaluation of others in ambiguous situations is referred to as

A)Social identity error
B)Fundamenal attribution error
C)Phenomenal absolutism error
D)Ultimate attribution error

Question 15

According to Tafoya, in the 2000 census Hispanics did the following with regard to racial categories

A)95% saw themselves as ""Some Other Race""
B)48% identified as White
C)There was an equal distribution between White and ""Some Other Race""
D)The majority refused to answer the question

Question 16

Studies have found that Whites in the United States hold what types of views of Hispanics?

A)all positive views
B)all negative views
C)Both positive and negative views
D)None of the answers are correct

Question 17

In the 1988 presidential race, George H.W. Bush ran an ad of an African-American who committed a crime while on furlough under the governorship of Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. The ad was used to depict Dukakis as soft on crime and became known as the

A)Willie-Horton effect
B)Race-card effect
C)Bradley effect
D)Symbolic racism effect

Question 18

When a judgment that an observer makes about a group is not perceived as a judgment about the group, but an attribute of the group is it termed,

A)fundamental attribution bias
B)heuristic
C)stereotype
D)phenomenal absolutism error

Question 19

realistic group conlfict theory purports the following:

A)discrimination is an unimportant concept
B)descrimination is a result of the phenomenal absolutism error
C)driscrimination is a result of competition over scarce resources
D)when goods are in short supply, competition lessons between groups

Question 20

Which of the following theories argues that children learn negative attitudes and discriminatory behavior from their parents?

A)social learning
B)social identity
C)social causation
D)social conflict

Question 21

The following theory presents an orientation measure that differentiates those who prefer social group relations to be equal or hierarchical, and the extent to which people want their in-group to dominate out-groups

A)social learning
B)social orientation
C)social identity
D)social dominance

Question 22

Ascribing one's own unacceptable and repressed impulses or attributes to explain why out-groups are inferior is known as:

A)scapegoating
B)repression
C)social dominance
D)projection

Question 23

In their 2003 study on Blacks and higher education, which of the following points was not made thy Hoffman and Llagas

A)Blacks remained less likely than whites to earn a college degree
B)the proportion of Blacks completing college increassed between 1975 and 2000
C)blacks made no strides in higher education
D)Black professors were likely to be at the assistant rank rather than the higher ranks of associate professor

Question 24

Studies have found that racist attitudes in the USA:

A)Increased as education levels increased over the years
B)are more prevalent now than in 1942
C)diminished as education levels increased over the years
D)Remain unchanged since 1942

Question 25

The Pew Research Center made all but the following points about the Obama election?

A)Of the 7% of Whites who said race would affect their decision about whom ot vote for; two thirds voted for John McCain.
B)Whites favored John McCain by 12%
C)95% of Blacks voted for Obama
D)Whites were not truthful in saying they would vote for a Black candidate

Question 26

McClain et al. found all but the following in their 2006 study of Latino immigrants in Durham, North Carolina

A)58% of Latinos reported that few or almost no blacks are hardworking
B)75% believed Blacks were equal if not better to Latinos
C)31% saw Blacks as lazy
D)None of the answers are correct

Question 27

McClain et al. found in their study of Latino immigrants in Durham, North Carolina

A)42.8% of Blacks saw Latinos as hard to get along with
B)71.9% of Blacks believe Latinos to be hardworking
C)71.9% found Blacks to be easy to get along with
D)Across all measures, Blacks were viewed as superior to Latinos

Question 28

In their 1997 study of White racial attitudes, Schuman et al. found that

A)Whites demonstrated an inability to accept the principles of equal treatment Whites were inherently racist
B)There was a general increase in Whites' acceptance of the principles of equal treatment
C)Blacks and Whites needed to be segregated
D)Whites were inherently racist

Question 29

The argument that a new form of racism has replaced that of the old pre-civil rights era racism which has a foundation in conservative political values and Protestant ethic's moral values is called

A)social dominance model
B)politics-is-complicated model
C)principled objection model
D)symbolic racism

Question 30

The bystander phenomenon occurs

A)when there is a conflict that involves five individuals or less
B)when too many people intervene to help others
C)when people do nothing to help others
D)predominatly in Asian countries

Question 31

Dehumanization takes place when

A)One group decides to ignore another
B)A group is considered far superior but threatening
C)A group is seen as posing no threat
D)A group is seen as less than human