Exam 5: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Prejudice and discrimination based on a person's gender,or institutional and cultural practices that promote the domination of one gender (typically men)over another,are most accurately termed

The Jets and the Sharks are two groups of local youths who regularly-and belligerently-compete against each other.The Robbers Cave experiment would suggest that one way of healing the rift between these groups is to

Germane Alexander's (2003)research on children's sex-based preferences for toys indicates that,in addition to being affected by socialization,such preferences are affected by

Research on the jigsaw method has found that jigsaw classrooms saw a(n)

Charles is a Red Sox fan who does not think highly of Yankees fans.Which statement that Charles made in the past week is most consistent with the concept of out group homogeneity?

The tendency to perceive members of an out group as less variable,or more similar to one another,than members of the in group,is called the

Name at least three strategies that can be employed to reduce stereotype threat.

Being persistently stereotyped,perceived as deviant,and devalued in society because of membership in a particular social group or because of a particular characteristic is the definition of being

Stankiewicz and Roselle______________(2008)found that about______________of advertisements depicting women featured them as sex objects.

Imagine a person high in implicit prejudice having to interact with a person of a different race in a laboratory setting over several meetings.Research by Page-Gould and others (2008)suggests that for this individual,cortical levels will

Some border-town residents dislike illegal immigrants because they fear that the immigrants will take jobs away from them.These feelings can best be explained by

What process does the Common In group Identity Model emphasize?

One possible explanation for the failure of school desegregation to promote better racial relations is that it was

Lash on is an African-American student who believes that intelligence is fixed.Persuading him that intelligence is malleable may

Describe three mechanisms that help explain why stereotypes persist even when people are presented with stereotype-inconsistent information.

Gunner thinks that Jews are particularly funny.He overestimates the association between being a stand-up comedian and being Jewish because both characteristics are very distinctive from the normal population.This demonstrates

Being asked to think about one's mortality tends to

Which condition is not deemed ideal for contact to serve as a treatment for racism?

Which part of the brain is likely to show greater activation when you see an unfamiliar person who is described as a member of your ingroup as opposed to being a member of an outgroup?

Which of the following best exemplifies realistic conflict theory?