PSY2070 Quiz5

The concept of _____ racism concerns the ambivalence between individuals' sincerely fair-minded attitudes and beliefs and their largely unconscious and unrecognized prejudicial feelings and beliefs.

aversive

Which term best describes the behaviors directed against persons because of their membership in a particular group?

discrimination

Stereotype threat can be reduced by _____

giving individuals a reason to attribute their anxiety to test-irrelevant factors

Four conditions are deemed ideal for intergroup contact to serve as a treatment for racism, including _____.

having social norms, defined in part by the relevant authorities, that favor intergroup interactions

Individuals engaging in intergroup interactions often activate _____, or thoughts about the outgroup's stereotypes about them.

metastereotypes

An individual who assumes that there is a greater similarity among members of outgroups than among members of his or her own group is demonstrating the _____ effect.

outgroup homogeneity

Negative feelings about others because of their connection to a social group are best described as _____.

prejudices

Gender stereotypes are distinct from virtually all other stereotypes in that they often are _____.

prescriptive

Correll and colleagues (2002) designed a video game in which participants played the role of police officers and decided whether or not to "shoot" a target person who appeared on their computer screen. The participants' reaction times indicated that they were _____.

quicker to decide to shoot armed black than white targets and slower to decide to not shoot unarmed black than white targets

A component of _____ is a willingness to adopt cultural values that facilitate oppression over other groups.

social dominance orientation

According to _____ theory, each of us seeks to enhance our self-esteem, which has two components: personal and collective.

social identity

The experience of concern about being evaluated based on negative stereotypes about one's group is referred to as _____.

stereotype threat

Beliefs or associations that link whole groups of people with certain traits or characteristics are best described as _____.

stereotypes

An individual who is persistently perceived as deviant, and devalued in society because of membership in a particular social group or because of a particular characteristic, is being _____.

stigmatized

According to the stereotype content model, many group stereotypes vary along two dimensions: _____.

warmth and competence