Exam 12: Prejudice and Discrimination

Suppose that an African American manager refuses to hire a particular job applicant simply because he or she is White. Is this action racist? Support your position.

Within psychological social psychology, both the theory of cognitive dissonance and self-perception theory explain:

People with negative attitudes toward racial and ethnic minorities typically discriminate against the latter individuals.

Racial prejudice and discrimination against African Americans have all but disappeared within the United States over the course of the past 50 years. Thus, most contemporary social psychological research on prejudice and discrimination focuses on Latinos.

The American=White bias refers to the fact:

Who has, on average, low scores on the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes (CoBras) scale?

Contrast symbolic interactionist research on the construction of racial and ethnic identities with research on identity formation and its consequences within the group processes and structures tradition.

The jigsaw technique is a multiability intervention developed within the status characteristics tradition.

The White racial frame results in a self-fulfilling prophecy at the societal level because the position of racial/ethnic minorities in the stratification hierarchy, which is caused by the White racial frame, is used to:

Macro-level interventions include:

Whereas prejudice, at either the macro or micro level, is a feeling, discrimination:

What is the difference between implicit and explicit racial attitudes? Describe the U.S. population's current attitudes toward racial and ethnic minorities. When are Whites most likely to demonstrate prejudice at the micro level?

Most of the studies that focus on the effects of contact on racial attitudes (i.e., prejudice at the individual level) are: