Prejudice and Discrimination

The just world phenomenon often leads people to:

Believe that victims of misfortune deserve to suffer

A vivid example of an individual's behavior has an unusually strong influence on people's judgments of a whole social group primarily because people:

Estimate the frequency of group characteristics in terms of the memorability of these characteristics

Six-year-old Ezra believes that boys are better than girls, while 5-year-old Arlette believes that girls are better than boys. Their beliefs most clearly illustrate:

Ingroup bias.

Cross-cultural research on gender relations indicates that:

People perceive their fathers as more intelligent than their mothers despite gender equality in intelligence scores

In one experiment, university students were asked to evaluate the performance of a student basketball player. Those who saw a photo of a black player evaluated him more favorably than did those who saw a photo of a white player. This best illustrates the impact of:

Stereotypes

Arturo believes that most young women from California are extremely good-looking and that extremely good-looking women are usually selfish and egotistical. His beliefs are examples of:

Stereotypes.

We are most likely to _________________ the diversity among members of an __________.

Underestimate; outgroup