Module 36
If researchers found that people take longer to identify words such as...
implicit prejudice
During a Girl Scout picnic, Lavinia was randomly selected to be on one baseball team and Carla...
ingroup basis
Johnathon, who attends Cloverdale High School, believes that all students at his school are...
ingroup basis
The tendency to favor "us" rather than "them" is called
ingroup basis
The social group to which a person belongs is called the _____, and the social group to which a person does not belong is called the _____.
ingroup; outgroup
Marshall, who is not a college athlete, thinks that all college athletes behave the same and have the same attitudes toward nonathletes. Marshall's thinking illustrates
outgroup homogeneity
An unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members is called
prejudice
Jorge is a pitcher for his high school baseball team. In the last inning....
the frustration-aggression principle
When Christa learned that she did not make the cheerleading team, she stole clothes....
the frustration-aggression principle
A news commenter says, "the doctor deserved to become infected with the Ebola virus because..."
the just-world phenomenon
Morris, who is White, was a witness to a crime
the other-race effect
Evidence that people exhibit heightened of prejudice when they are economically frustrated offers support for
the scapegoat theory
Outgroup homogeneity is defined as
the tendency to perceive the members of an outgroup as similar to each other.
A stereotype is best described as a
A generalized belief about a group of people
A negative behavior describes ________; a negative attitude describes ________.
discrimination; prejudice
Discrimination is best described as
an unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group of people and its members
