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