Psy 360 quiz 8

One of the most effective ways to eradicate stereotyping is to use the process of subtyping

False

In one high school, students from the rural area of the school district have always fought with students from the urban area. In order to reduce this intergroup hostility, the principal decides that the students in the two groups need to have personal contact on an equal-status basis. What else might she do to best achieve more harmonious relations between groups?

Have them work together on a school-wide project.

At the car dealership, Michelle encountered ambivalent sexism when her new boss

acted protectively towards the women under his supervision but devalued their work.

In the Robbers Cave experiment, young boys came to dislike each other intensely after a period of

competing with one another.

For Joel, being a part of the basketball team is very important. When asked to compare the basketball team to the football team, he states, "We're a way better team than they are because we play smart. They're just a bunch of dummies." According to social identity theory, this ingroup favoritism should make Joel

feel better about himself.

Karen divides her class into small, racially mixed groups. Each student learns part of the assigned work and then teaches it to others in the group. This procedure is an example of

jigsaw classroom

As a result of his ethnographic research on racists, Ezekiel found that the members of a neo-Nazi group, most of whom were followers, could be described as

living lives characterized by emotional impoverishment and hopelessness.

The term racism refers to

prejudice and discrimination based on a person's race institutional and cultural practices that promote the domination of one racial group over another (both a and b)

The blue gang and the red gang are having a dispute about who controls turf around the vacant lot next to the high school. During this dispute, fighting between the two groups escalates. This result could be mostly easily predicted from

realistic conflict theory

Research on stereotype threat shows that stereotypes can

undermine the academic performance of women and African Americans.