Prejudice, Discrimination, Stereotyping 2

Which of the following emotional prejudices might a person be most likely to experience in response to another person who is high in warmth but low in competence?

a. disgust b. pity c. pride d. envy

In one high school, students from the country have always fought with students from the city. In order to reduce this intergroup hostility, the principal decides that the people in the two groups need to have personal contact on an equal-status basis. What else might he do to try to achieve more harmonious relations between the groups?

a. Have them take classes designed to familiarize the groups with aspects of each other's lives. b. Have them identify the strengths of their own group. c. Have them work together on a school wide project. d. Have teachers identify students based on their group affiliation.

Tom, Sarah, Chad, and Lisa are police officers taking part in a virtual environment shooting training. Given what you know about the shooter bias, which of them is at lower risk of shooting an unarmed Black man in the exercise?

a. Tom, who is relatively new to the police force. b. Chad who is in a virtual neighborhood that looks poor and unsafe. c. Lisa who has many Black friends. d. Sarah who might be prejudiced but doesn't worry about what people think about her.

The stereotype content model suggests that we judge social groups on which two features?

a. attractiveness and values b. competence and attractiveness c. competence and values d. warmth and competence

Steven is a graduate student in a social neuroscience lab. He is looking at the fMRI data that was taken from a group of participants while they were looking at images of various people from different social groups and various objects. He notices that the data looks very similar in the people and the object condition. Which of the following can he infer from the data?

a. the research participants most likely looked at images of members of social groups that participants dehumanized b. the research participants most likely looked at images of members of social groups that participants felt had high levels of prejudice against c. the research participants most likely looked at images of members of social groups that participants viewed as high in warmth and low in competence d. the research participants most likely looked at images of members of social groups that participants viewed as high in competence and low in warmth

Stereotype threat is _____.

a. the threat that people who are stereotyped feel b. the fear that others will stereotype you because of your race c. the fear that you will stereotype others because of their race d. the fear that you will confirm negative stereotypes about a group you belong to

Research on stereotype threat shows that stereotypes can

a. motivate people to try harder in order to improve their performance. b. lower the self-esteem of members of stereotyped groups. c. undermine the academic performance of women and minorities. d. only affect members of groups who do not have power in society.