Chapter 11
Intergroup contact suggests bias can best be reduced by which method?
Interacting with typical out-group members in a positive manner.
The relationship between contact and prejudice reduction is mediated by which of the following?
Intergroup anxiety
Research suggests that imagining coming into contact with dissimilar others can reduce implicit biases.
True
The basic premise of the contract hypothesis is that prejudice is maintained because of which of the following?
A and B only
At MacMullen sports shop, processes and structures are in place to encourage people to interact with dissimilar others. What is this an example of?
Availability of institutional support
Which of the following strategies reduces bias by breaking down categorization boundaries through repeated individualized interactions with put-group members.
Decategorization
Contact between a supervisor and employee is more likely to reduce bias than is contact between two organizational peers.
False
Some factors, called Contact enablers, should help contact reduce prejudice
False
According to the integrated model, which of the following is true?
None of the above
Through interactions and cooperation with one another, members of a women's basketball team come to consider the team as possessing a common in-group identity, thereby reducing biases. This is consistent with:
Recategorization
Which of the following statements is most correct?
Some diversity forms might be so intrinsic to people's identities that efforts to alter their salience will be met with resistance.
Cross-categorization entails simultaneous activation of multiple in-group identities, thereby reducing prejudice and discrimination based on any one category.
True
Even after categorization, the bias reduction might depend on the diversity of the groups merging together.
True
From an intergroup contact perspective, prejudice is reduced whent he most influential out-group memebers' perspectives are valued over others.
True
Intergroup contact works better when people cooperate rather than compete against one another.
True
As a result of reading harry potter books, Mallory stonebraker has reduced prejudice toward people who are different than she is. This is consistent with:
extended contact
Chris Betz engages in positive intergroup contact with Dan, a polish-American colleague, and as a result has reduced prejudiced toward other polish-American people. This is consistent with generalization:
from an individual to an out-group
The video we watched in class demonstrated how interpersonal conflict often operates mentally and emotionally, just under the surface of our normative everyday athletic interactions and social relations. What was the sport and what occurred to demonstrate?
pick-up basketball- a hard foul