Chapter 11

Intergroup contact suggests bias can best be reduced by which method?

Interacting with typical out-group members in a positive manner.

The relationship between contact and prejudice reduction is mediated by which of the following?

Intergroup anxiety

Research suggests that imagining coming into contact with dissimilar others can reduce implicit biases.

True

The basic premise of the contract hypothesis is that prejudice is maintained because of which of the following?

A and B only

At MacMullen sports shop, processes and structures are in place to encourage people to interact with dissimilar others. What is this an example of?

Availability of institutional support

Which of the following strategies reduces bias by breaking down categorization boundaries through repeated individualized interactions with put-group members.

Decategorization

Contact between a supervisor and employee is more likely to reduce bias than is contact between two organizational peers.

False

Some factors, called Contact enablers, should help contact reduce prejudice

False

According to the integrated model, which of the following is true?

None of the above

Through interactions and cooperation with one another, members of a women's basketball team come to consider the team as possessing a common in-group identity, thereby reducing biases. This is consistent with:

Recategorization

Which of the following statements is most correct?

Some diversity forms might be so intrinsic to people's identities that efforts to alter their salience will be met with resistance.

Cross-categorization entails simultaneous activation of multiple in-group identities, thereby reducing prejudice and discrimination based on any one category.

True

Even after categorization, the bias reduction might depend on the diversity of the groups merging together.

True

From an intergroup contact perspective, prejudice is reduced whent he most influential out-group memebers' perspectives are valued over others.

True

Intergroup contact works better when people cooperate rather than compete against one another.

True

As a result of reading harry potter books, Mallory stonebraker has reduced prejudice toward people who are different than she is. This is consistent with:

extended contact

Chris Betz engages in positive intergroup contact with Dan, a polish-American colleague, and as a result has reduced prejudiced toward other polish-American people. This is consistent with generalization:

from an individual to an out-group

The video we watched in class demonstrated how interpersonal conflict often operates mentally and emotionally, just under the surface of our normative everyday athletic interactions and social relations. What was the sport and what occurred to demonstrate?

pick-up basketball- a hard foul