Exam 17: B: Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior

A college professor and his wife were driving to their favorite place to fish in their "beat-up" old pick-up truck.A police officer pulls them over and tells them to hand over the drink cans they have because he saw them "drinking and driving" and knows that they are intoxicated.When he looks at the drink cans,both are diet soft drinks.If the college professor and his wife were targeted for questioning because they looked "poor," the officer has engaged in

Right-wing authoritarianism describes the tendency of some people to highly value

Symbolic prejudice is

Jeremy is watching a TV program that portrays violence as leading to success and popularity.This message may

On a test,if people who claimed not to be prejudiced against women working outside the home were slower and less accurate in classifying words into the categories of Female or Career as opposed to Female or Family, this would indicate that they

The psychological mechanism that is used to justify violence and involves portraying the "enemy" as evil or monstrous and deserving of hatred or even death is called

Prosocial behavior on TV has been shown to have what effect on the behavior of its viewers?

Which of the following researchers started out by studying anti-Semitism,found that people who are prejudiced against one group tend to be prejudiced against all out-groups,and described the characteristics of the authoritarian personality?

An institutionalized prejudice based solely on one's age is called

Cyberbullying or harassment of others over the Internet is referred to as

Scapegoating involves releasing aggression on __________ targets.

"Obedience and respect for authority are the most important virtues children should learn" and "Nobody ever learns anything really important except through suffering" are statements that would most likely be found on the

Research by Donnerstein and Linz suggests that which of the following is/are most responsible for people's attitudes about women and rape?

Disgusting scenes or odors,pain,and insults are aversive stimuli that can heighten hostility by

In his research,Steele found that when African-American college students were told that a task to be performed was a test of academic ability,their performance was

Regarding stereotypes,which of the following statements is FALSE?

Prejudice that is expressed in a disguised fashion is __________ prejudice.

Today's society is more like a "tossed salad" than a cultural "melting pot." Rather than expecting everyone to be alike,psychologists believe that we should embrace

Regarding anger control,which of the following statements is FALSE?

Sherif was able to finally reduce intergroup conflict between the "Rattlers" and "Eagles" camp groups by