Deck 10: Social Stigma: the Experience of Prejudice

Question 1

Blame and judgment would be most likely associated with reactions to someone with:

A)colon cancer.
B)lung cancer.
C)breast cancer.
D)prostate cancer.

Answer 1

lung cancer.

Question 2

In a study of well-being among AIDS victims,those with the most anxiety and depression were those who:

A)revealed their illness to a few friends.
B)concealed their illness.
C)revealing or concealing was unrelated to depression.

Answer 2

concealed their illness.

Question 3

Social stigma involves:

A)having actual and virtual identities that don't align.
B)having a characteristic that is negatively stereotyped.
C)being in a context where one's trait is negatively valued.
D)all of these.

Answer 3

all of these.

Question 4

People with invisible stigmas are free of social difficulties.

Question 5

Stigmatized peoples' actual and virtual identities are usually the same.

Question 6

The feeling of being stigmatized by others because of who you are seen with is called:

A)social stigma.
B)virtual stigma.
C)courtesy stigma.
D)ambivalence.

Question 7

What are the most common consequences of stereotype threat?

A)stereotyped students work harder
B)stereotyped students feel anxiety
C)stereotyped students devalue achievement
D)both B and C
E)all of these

Question 8

We respond to stigmatized people with:

A)dislike and anxiety.
B)sympathy and admiration.
C)both A and B.

Question 9

Stigmatized people must deal with the fact that their attribute arouses suspicion in others as to their competence and worthiness.This is most consistent with what consequence of stigma?

A)mindfulness
B)stereotype threat
C)courtesy stigma

Question 10

Pity and offers of help are mostly likely to be extended to the person with AIDS who contracted the illness from:

A)an AIDS-infected partner.
B)an infected drug needle.
C)a blood transfusion.
D)none of these.

Question 11

Which underlying dimension does not affect stigma?

A)peril
B)visibility
C)controllability
D)consistency

Question 12

Being "found out" by others as having a disliked or negatively stereotyped characteristic is most consistent with which conceptualization of stigma?

A)Stigma is situationally determined.
B)Stigma is a mismatch of identities.
C)Stigma is an attribute-stereotype connection.
D)Stigma is being the object of ambivalence.

Question 13

Stigma is an enduring inner quality that is unchanging across contexts.

Question 14

Stigmatized people are forced to be more mindful than nonstigmatized people.

Question 15

Being "reduced to a stereotype" by others is most consistent with which conceptualization of stigma?

A)Stigma is situationally determined.
B)Stigma is a mismatch of identities.
C)Stigma is an attribute-stereotype connection.
D)Stigma is being the object of ambivalence.

Question 16

Lung cancer and HIV/AIDS are two illness that differ in:

A)peril.
B)perceived controllability.
C)visibility.

Question 17

Having depression versus having cerebral palsy are examples of stigmatizing qualities that differ in:

A)peril.
B)perceived controllability.
C)visibility.

Question 18

Walton and Spencer's 2009)meta-analysis showed that when stereotype threat is experimentally eliminated:

A)minority students perform better than majority-group students.
B)minority students still perform worse than majority-group students.
C)minority students and majority-group students perform equally well.

Question 19

The study of stigma is concerned with prejudice from:

A)the social perceiver's perspective.
B)the target's perspective.
C)both A and B.

Question 20

People who conceal their stigma form relationships somewhat under false pretenses.

Question 21

What are some of the characteristics of mental illness stigma?

Question 22

To be or appear to be)poor is associated with negative assumptions about academic ability.

Question 23

Describe the ambivalence in our reactions to stigmatized people.

Question 24

What does it mean to say that a stigmatizing mark is high in peril?

Question 25

Does having multiple stigmatized identities lead to more negative outcomes than having a single stigmatized identity? Discuss.

Question 26

How does courtesy stigma happen in parents with children with developmental disabilities? What are some of the consequences of that courtesy stigma?

Question 27

Discuss two ways that stereotype threat undermines academic performance.

Question 28

What is the difference between one's actual and virtual identities?

Question 29

Negative stereotypes undermine performance by reducing memory capacity.

Question 30

Checking a box on a form to indicate your race or ethnicity is sufficient to arouse stereotype threat.

Question 31

Describe the basic idea of stereotype threat and give an example.

Question 32

Social stigma can be conceptualized in several complementary ways-describe them.

Question 33

When Goffman states that stigmatized people have a "spoiled identity," to what psychological processes is he referring?

Question 34

How is it stressful to have the experience of negative stereotypes "in the air?"

Question 35

Mentally ill people tend to be stereotyped with animal traits wild,beastly).

Question 36

Being stereotype threatened leads to increased self-control and regulation.

Question 37

Discuss the trade-offs in having a visible compared to an invisible social flaw for psychological well-being.