Module 36

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If researchers found that people take longer to identify words such as...

implicit prejudice

During a Girl Scout picnic, Lavinia was randomly selected to be on one baseball team and Carla...

ingroup basis

Johnathon, who attends Cloverdale High School, believes that all students at his school are...

ingroup basis

The tendency to favor "us" rather than "them" is called

ingroup basis

The social group to which a person belongs is called the _____, and the social group to which a person does not belong is called the _____.

ingroup; outgroup

Marshall, who is not a college athlete, thinks that all college athletes behave the same and have the same attitudes toward nonathletes. Marshall's thinking illustrates

outgroup homogeneity

An unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members is called

prejudice

Jorge is a pitcher for his high school baseball team. In the last inning....

the frustration-aggression principle

When Christa learned that she did not make the cheerleading team, she stole clothes....

the frustration-aggression principle

A news commenter says, "the doctor deserved to become infected with the Ebola virus because..."

the just-world phenomenon

Morris, who is White, was a witness to a crime

the other-race effect

Evidence that people exhibit heightened of prejudice when they are economically frustrated offers support for

the scapegoat theory

Outgroup homogeneity is defined as

the tendency to perceive the members of an outgroup as similar to each other.

A stereotype is best described as a

A generalized belief about a group of people

A negative behavior describes ________; a negative attitude describes ________.

discrimination; prejudice

Discrimination is best described as

an unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group of people and its members


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