Exam 5: Nativism and Racism

All of the following categories address the theories of the ways prejudice are caused except:

Americans may exhibit a social desirability biasπthat is to say exactly how they feel and get it all out in the open.

LaPiere (1934)found that even though 92 percent of hotel owners stated they would not let Chinese stay at their hotel:

LaPiere's study showed that people's behavior depended more on group membership than on attitudes.

Prejudice must be present to keep the current institutional discrimination system intact.

Respondents scoring high on the F-Score scored high on:

Which region would be considered "superior" according to social Darwinistic ideology?

No Chinese helped to build U.S.railroads because of the laws.

Marx argued that owners lose money when discrimination occurs.

The ideas of scientific racism were under strong attack during the twentieth century.

Many studies indicate that dominant group members profit from discrimination.

Authoritarianism is highly related to prejudice.

Noel (1968)studied how split labor markets impact economic standing.

The Chinese rarely found justice for the violence committed against them.

Assuming that our actions are always caused by our attitudes is an example of the:

By WWII most scholarly types felt that only heredity affected intelligence.

The authors argue that the door to America was always fully open.

The Bell Curve connected IQ to current social problems and race.

Mead's 1934 theory focuses on how infants initially view the world from their own ________ perspective.

Brigham (1923)found major problems with the Army intelligence tests.