Social Psychology Chapter 5 and 6
Charles is a Red Sox fan who does not think highly of Yankees fans. Which of the following statements that Charles made in the past week is most consistent with the concept of outgroup homogeneity?
"Obnoxious, rude, and prone to throwing batteries... if you've seen one Yankees fan, you've seen them all."
Affectionate feelings toward women based on the belief that women need protection are referred to as _____ sexism.
Benevolent
Negative feelings directed at women's abilities, values, and ability to challenge the power of men are referred to as
Hostile Sexism
Gender stereotypes are prescriptive. This means that gender stereotypes
Identify what men and woman should be like
The belief "they're all the same" best epitomizes which of the following concepts?
Outgrip homogeneity effect
Social categorization leads people to
Overestimate differences between groups
Stereotypes differ from prejudice and discrimination in that stereotypes concern
Positive or negative beliefs about a social group
The idea that, under certain conditions, direct contact between hostile groups can reduce prejudice is most consistent with
The contact hypothesis
Which of the following is not predicted by social identity theory?
Threats to self-esteem tend to decrease in-group favoritism
Word and colleagues (1974) conducted a study examining the influence of racial stereotyping on job interview performance. This study demonstrated that
a job interviewer's behavior can create a self-fulfilling prophecy that leads applicants of a particular race to objectively perform more poorly than other applicants.
Research on stereotype threat suggests that underperformance by African Americans in academic settings may be due to
fear of confirming negative stereotypes of American Americans
According to social-role theory, gender differences that arise from social roles provide a continuing basis for
gender stereotypes
research on the jigsaw method has found that jigsaw classrooms saw
improvement in minority group and maintenance of test score for the majority group
All of the following result from social categorization except
increased tendency to notice behaviors inconsistent with group stereotype
According to the self-regulation of prejudiced responses model, _____ motivated individuals may learn to control their prejudices _____ effectively over time.
internally; more
A junior high coach decides to separate his basketball players into an A team and a B team. These two teams regularly play each other and compete for rewards, such as time at the drinking fountain and use of the new basketballs. The Robbers Cave experiment would suggest that the coach's new arrangement is likely to
leads to animosity between the A team and the B team
Research by Jennifer Richeson, Nicole Shelton, and colleagues demonstrates that Caucasian individuals who score high on a measure of implicit racism
must exert a great deal of cognitive effort in order to avoid prejudice when interacting with African Americans
Zena just learned that she did not get into the college of her choice. She comes upon Alec, a resident of a nearby neighborhood and one that most outsiders find distasteful. It is likely that the news Zena just received will cause her to judge Alec more _____, making her feel _____ about herself.
negatively; better
Research findings regarding dehumanization indicate that
people tend to process outgrip faces in manner similar to their processing of nonhuman objects
Bonnie dislikes all lawyers. This is an example of
prejudice
Some border-town residents dislike illegal immigrants because they fear that the immigrants will take jobs away from them. These feelings can best be explained by
realistic conflict theory
Bridgette thinks short people are lazy, and Barbara refuses to let short people join her book club. Bridgette is exhibiting _____, whereas Barbara is exhibiting _____.
stereotyping;discrimination
A shared goal that can be achieved only through cooperation among individuals or groups is
superordinate