Quiz 12

Rafael has joined the Spanish Club at his school. According to the social identity theory, what is Rafael likely to do when he meets individuals from the German Club or French Club and defines them as outgroup members?

Rafael will exaggerate the similarities amongst outgrip members

Any belief or opinion that has an evaluative component is called an:

attitude

Mirabelle loves to go tanning. However, she learns that overexposure to ultraviolet rays is the leading cause of cancer. The feeling of discrepancy between her preexisting favorable attitude toward tanning and the new knowledge she has obtained is known as:

cognitive dissonance

A college is considering whether to put the English or Math department in a posh new building funded by an alumni billionaire. A group of English professors joke about the math faculty, saying that they are all alike- unsociable, unable to participate in a discussion of the arts, and boring. Their tendency to see members of the math department as different from themselves and very similar to one another in having such undesirable traits is an illustration of:

negative stereotyping of the other group

A social category or group with which an individual does not personally identify is called an:

outgroup

The most accurate statement about affective forecasting is:

people tend to be accurate with predicting whether an event will result in positive or negative feelings but inaccurate regarding the strength or duration of these emotions

______________ is an evaluation or emotion toward people merely based on their group membership

prejudice

Positive or negative evaluations of group members, based on their group membership is _____________, whereas behaviors directed towards members of a group based on those evaluations is _____________

prejudice; discrimination

Pablo usually fishes alone, but when his friend Jaime accompanied Pablo on his last fishing trip, Pablo wound his fishing reel faster than when Pablo was fishing alone. This might be explained by:

social facilitation

A possible outcome when individuals' implicit and explicit attitudes do not match is that:

they are unaware they hold an actual bias, such as a bias towards an ethnic minority