Exam 5: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Knowing that an ingroup friend has a close relationship with a member of an outgroup can produce positive intergroup benefits. This is called the ____ effect.

Which of the following statements concerning the relationship between competition and prejudice is false ?

Research by Bodenhausen (1990) on the cognitive functioning of "morning people" vs. "night people" demonstrates that the influence of stereotypes depends on the

You think all professors are a bit nerdy and have abstract interests. You find out that your social psychology professor can sing the theme song to any television show that aired in the 1970s or 1980s and is also fluent in the Star Trek language of Klingon. You believe that your stereotype has been confirmed by this professor. This is an example of

Dr. Charles does not feel that African American students are as academically qualified as other students. He does not give them as much of his attention, is less willing to make appointments to give them help, and spends less time reading and making comments on their papers. Dr. Charles is engaging in ____ toward his African American students.

Research on stereotype threat indicates that

Which of the following experimental procedures would a researcher investigating stereotype threat be least likely to use?

In a study by Phelan and colleagues (2008), participants read about male and female candidates for a managerial position. Compared to comparable male candidates, female candidates who emphasized their independence and leadership ability were rated as

Research on stereotype threat suggests that underperformance by African Americans in academic settings may be due to

James is not satisfied with his $5 million annual salary because he feels that other basketball All-Stars are paid far more money. James' dissatisfaction is most likely the result of

Explain how social identity theory accounts for ingroup favoritism.

The concept that concerns the ambivalence between one's sincere, fair-minded attitudes and beliefs, and their largely unconscious and unrealized prejudicial feelings and beliefs, is called ____ racism.

Payne (2001) was among the first to conduct research into the "shooter bias" He found that participants were more likely to mistake a harmless weapon for a gun if the image was preceded by a picture of a black face than it was if it was preceded by a white face. This shows the influence of ____ on our interpretation of stimuli in our environments.

A junior high coach decides to separate his basketball players into Team A and Team B. These two teams regularly play each other and compete for rewards, such as time at the drinking fountain and use of the new basketballs. The Robbers Cave experiment would suggest that the coach's new arrangement is likely to

Subtyping is least likely when confronted with a group member who

A form of prejudice that surfaces in subtle ways when it is safe, socially acceptable, and easy to rationalize is called

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

Buffy is a member of a sorority. She considers the stereotypes about her sorority to be gross overgeneralizations but claims that the stereotypes about other sororities seem to have a kernel of truth. Buffy's thinking best illustrates

What process does the common ingroup identity model emphasize?

Kashima and others (2013) had Australian students transmit a story about a football player from one person to the next. Their results indicated that as the story went from person to person,