Exam 13: Prejudice: Causes and Cures

According to some research, the degree of explicit prejudice has declined, but because of implicit prejudice it has

Thurgood Marshall is known as a former Supreme Court justice. Yet he made other important contributions to policies related to prejudice, including

Prejudice may be maintained by ________ normative rules.

Alice's three children are driving her crazy. They are constantly squabbling, calling one another names, and generally tormenting one another. To preserve what's left of her sanity, Alice has decided to try to convince the youngsters to get along. She promises them that she will take them to a funny movie if they will work together to clean their playroom in under thirty minutes. Which of the preconditions for reducing conflict does this illustrate?

Discrimination is the ________ component of negative attitudes toward a group of people.

In the United States, the statement, "I'm proud to be an American" exemplifies a(n)

You don't know very many people with blue hair, but you happen to observe that when fights break out, they seem to involve people with blue hair. You draw the conclusion that people with blue hair are particularly violent, even though they are not. This conclusion reflects a(n)

Although psychologists usually refer to stereotypes only in a ________ sense, it is possible for a person to have a ________ stereotype about a particular group.

________ is to individuals as ________ is to groups.

Provide an example of a microaggression you have either done or seen. Be sure to give the definition of "microaggression" and explain how the behavior fits the definition.

Researchers exposed participants to a twenty-minute audiotape of a college basketball game. Half of the participants were led to believe that one player, Mark Flick, was African American, and the other half were led to believe that Mark Flick was Caucasian. When participants were asked to rate Mark Flick's performance,

Research has shown that when fate (e.g., a flip of a coin) determines the allocation of rewards for completing a task, participants will often

Recall that Sherif and his colleagues (1961) created conflict between two groups of boys in a summer camp. Once in-group cohesiveness was established, they set up a series of competitive situations such as tug-of-war and other competitive games. Conflict between the two groups escalated. This field study provided support for the ________ theory of prejudice.

When Gordon Allport (1954) described stereotyping as "the law of least effort," he was suggesting that stereotypes arise

According to Devine's (1989) experimental research on prejudice and information processing, how are prejudiced people like non-prejudiced people? How are they different?

Why would something as apparently innocuous as a defendant's name influence the inferences and decisions of mock jurors in the experiment by Bodenhausen (1988) mentioned in the text?

Who is least likely to experience a reduction in prejudice?

Describe how institutionalized sexism or racism can contribute to individual prejudice.

Jessica isn't invited to a Super Bowl party her coworkers are throwing because she's a woman. Jessica is experiencing ________ from her coworkers.

________ characterizes a situation in which two or more groups need each other and must depend on each other to accomplish a goal important to each group.