Exam 9: Prejudice: Disliking Others

Advik,a 15-year-old,believes that the winning team in the intra-school quiz competition won because the members knew the answers to the quiz questions beforehand.He convinces himself that they performed better than his team because they cheated.In the context of the cognitive sources of prejudice,Advik's belief illustrates ________.

The realistic group conflict theory suggests that prejudice arises:

Betty and Tina are in the third grade.They have been chosen for their school team to participate in a math competition against other local schools.They are excited on the morning of the competition because they both believe that their team is going to win since they are the better team.The girls' belief best illustrates:

Albert sees a lot of difference between his fraternity brothers but thinks that all sorority girls are the same.Albert's beliefs are best explained by:

Which of the following is an example of benevolent sexism?

Which of the following statements is true of the social sources of prejudice?

A consistent finding concerning North American Christianity is that White church members have expressed ________ than nonmembers.

Attitudes include all of the following EXCEPT:

A group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup is called a(n):

Explaining away outgroup members' positive behaviors and attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions is known as:

According to Baumeister (2007),Brunner et al.(2013),and S.Pinker (2008),unlike women,men are ________.

Jeremy's belief that earthquake victims are being punished by God for their own sins best illustrates:

In the context of distinctiveness,Crocker and McGraw (1984)and S.E.Taylor et al.(1979)found that a Black person in an otherwise White group,a man in an otherwise female group,or a woman in an otherwise male group seems:

A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members is called:

People's ideas about how men and women ought to behave are called ________,whereas people's beliefs about how women and men do behave are called ________.

African Americans in the South were lynched after the Civil War.Between 1882 and 1930,more lynchings occurred in years when cotton prices were low and economic frustration was presumably high.This suggests that prejudice can be partly explained by ________.

Beth believes that all sorority members are unintelligent and self-centered.After meeting Kim,who has a 4.0 GPA and volunteers 20 hours each week to help disabled children,Beth says "Well,Kim is an exception to the rule." This is an example of:

People redirect their hostility when the cause of their frustration is intimidating or unknown.This phenomenon is known as ________.

In the context of the social sources of prejudice,a personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status is known as a(n)________.

Finn is the manager of a firm.He tends to give more opportunities to female employees than to male employees.He believes that women do their work more honestly than men.He also makes remarks such as "Women are highly intuitive" and "Women possess beauty with brains." As a result,the male employees in Finn's firm suffer from inferiority complex.In the context of prejudice,this scenario illustrates ________.