CRIJ 4336 Exam 2

When evaluating a situation, Ann readily adopts the psychological viewpoint of the others involved. Ann has the ability to

Engage in perspective taking

When one group acts as a second group, the second group tends to:

Escalate the situation

A particular strength of the intergroup anxiety concept is that unlike many other theories of prejudice it

Explains minority group members attitudes towards the majority group, as well as majority group members attitudes towards minority groups

People who feel good about themselves:

Express less prejudice

Most people endorse social policies that:

Favor themselves and the groups they belong to.

The two components of social dominance orientation are:

Group based dominance in opposition to equality

When self-serving bias causes us to forgive ingroup members based on circumstances, but blame outgroup members based on attributes we're dealing with

Group-serving bias, or ultimate attribution error

According to the stereotype content model people who feel contempt toward a group are likely to behave in ways that

Harm that group

Political conservatives typically

Have less other-concern than political liberals are less comfortable with ambiguity and are more Conventional

People who have a high social dominance orientation (SDO) are likely to agree with which of the following statements?

Hierarchies are natural, some groups are simply better than others.

Believing in a just world is relatively easy for:

High-status, wealthy people

One of the best ways to find out about stereotypes and prejudices is:

Implicit test like the IAT that operate outside of awareness

A person who feels disgust toward a group is likely to react to members of that group by

Incorrect-Being passively, aggressive toward them

Prejudice results when negative ____ elicit negative ____

Incorrect-Emotions; stereotypes

Social categorization is

Incorrect-Largely conscious

Which group is most likely to show ingroup favoritism

Incorrect-Political liberals

According to terror management theory ____ mortality salience ____ prejudice

Increasing; increases

Which of the following is not true about ingroup favoritism?

Ingroup favoritism is not present in young children

Social categorizing:

Is helpful in someways and harmful in others

Associating with people who are similar to ourselves, creates feeling of security because similarity

Performs all of the above functions

A student sees their new professor is much older than average student immediately feels disappointment and anxiety. This effect is:

Prejudice

People who score high on ____ are most likely to dislike immigrants, who maintain their own culture, and do not conform to the values of the dominant culture

Right-wing authoritarianism

Research on the attribution-value model shows that people are less likely to be prejudiced toward lesbians and gay men when they believe that

Sexual orientation is largely due to factors not under a person's control

Two groups of girls took a math test. before the test., One group was told girls do well with these kinds of test, and the other group was told the girls do poorly at such test when the second group underperformed the first this reveals.

Stereotype threat

People who adhere to the principle of individualism tend to be prejudiced against groups that are

Stereotyped as being lazy and self-indulgent

People high in empathy

Tend to be low in prejudice

Intergroup anxiety stems from

The concern that interacting with members of an out group will have negative consequences

John is a Christian. when he thinks about other Christians, he sees them as a very group with many different subtypes (e.g., Baptists, Presbyterians). When he thinks about Muslims, he thinks of them as being all the like it doesn't consider different types of sects. Josh's thinking is an example of ____.

The outgroup homogeneity effect

Two people ask you for a favor. one is from your school, the other from a neighboring school. You are most likely to help:

The person from your school.

Outgroup homogeneity means:

The tendency to view members of a given outgroup as Less diverse than members of our ingroup.

We get our stereotypes:

Through many sources, making it difficult to prevent the process.

Which of the following is true about ingroup favoritism?

We tend to make trait attributions in a way that favors ingroups over outgroups.

According to terror management theory, if you are asked to think about your own death, you will

derogate individuals whose values differ from your own.

According to the value difference hypothesis, prejudice is based on the belief that outgroup members

hold values that conflict with those of the ingroup.

____ is the value that places a strong emphasis on self-reliance.

individualism

You know your friends are each unique and special but view college professors as all very similar. This is an example of:

outgroup homogeneity

Authoritarian thinkers prefer

simplicity

Going to lunch at a new school, a student notices certain kinds of people sit together. One table is occupied by nerds; another by the drama club kids; and another by motorheads. The new student is engaged in:

social categorization

Professor Jones believes that college football players are not serious students and he expects them to do poorly in his classes. Jack is a football player in Prof. Jones' class. Prof Jones tends to not to call on Jack when he raises his hand Prof. Jones also tends to not give much feedback on Jack's written work. as a result, Jack disengages from the class and puts less effort into a studies. This process can be described as.

A self-fulfilling prophecy

College professors are absent minded, and dwell and Ivory towers. This statement is.

A stereotype

In the affect, behavior, cognition model, a PREJUDICE is:

An affect

If people perceive that a group poses an economic threat to their own group, they are likely to feel ____ toward that group

Anger

Which of the following is not true about social categorization?

Categorization leads to better understanding of individuals within a particular outgroup.

Education reduces prejudice, at least partly by:

Changing social norms

In the affect, behavior, cognition model, a STEREOTYPE is

Cognition

Near and his colleagues had black and white interviewers approach white students who are attending a football game and ask if they were willing to help out with research by answering a questionnaire. The interviewers also wore hats representing either one of the two universities playing in the game, white students were significantly more likely to help the black interviewers when they were a hat of the same university as that worn by the interviewee These results support the ____ model of reducing prejudice

Common ingroup identity