Exam 11: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Surveys of participants in the Seeds of Peace program,which brings together Israeli and Palestinian teenagers for a three-week summer camp experience,showed that participation in the program led to more favorable intergroup attitudes.Nine months after the program,these attitudes

What advantage do indirect measures of prejudice,such as the IAT,have over direct self-report measures,such as the Attitudes toward Blacks Scale?

Imagine that you witness someone who is part of a stereotyped outgroup committing the crime of petty theft.According to research considering the level of construal and the maintenance of stereotypes,which of the following would be the most likely description of this behavior by an observer maintaining the stereotype?

Research suggests that people tend to perceive ________ variability of habit and opinion among members of the ingroup than they do among members of the outgroup because people are ________.

Stereotypes are

Research on stereotype threat has shown that female students performed

According to the textbook,all of the following are changes that can be made on a societal level to reduce stereotyping,prejudice,and discrimination EXCEPT to

Jenny asks herself,"Did my officemate get the promotion instead of me because I am overweight or because I am really less qualified?" This sort of thought illustrates the ________ that members of stigmatized groups are likely to experience in everyday life.

In experiments employing the minimal group paradigm,a majority of participants are more interested in maximizing their ________ than in maximizing their ________.

Give a real-world example of ethnocentrism and describe how it affects behavior toward ingroup and outgroup members.

According social identity theory,Jasson is more likely to stereotype others and express prejudice when

The ________ perspective emphasizes that stereotypes can be useful categories that allow us to process information efficiently.

Recall that Sherif and his colleagues (1961)conducted the Robbers Cave experiment,which generated conflict between two groups of boys.This study showed that

In one study,white participants were faster to identify a weapon as a weapon when it was preceded by a picture of an African-American face as opposed to a white face.Subsequent research suggests that this effect is due to 

In one study,participants listened to a play-by-play account of a college basketball game.Results showed that participants who thought one of the players (Mark)was black,compared to participants who thought he was white,believed that Mark

Which of the following scenarios illustrates "basking in reflected glory"?

Imagine that you are a teacher and want to put the principles of the jigsaw classroom into practice.Describe a class activity that you could use and explain how it should help promote more positive intergroup attitudes.

Sheena took the implicit association test (IAT)and found that she responded faster when "strong" words were paired with male names as compared to when "strong" words were paired with female names.What does this finding suggest?

Members of stigmatized groups often cannot tell whether many of their experiences have the same origins as those of nonstigmatized groups or whether these experiences are the result of prejudice.Research on this attributional predicament in performance-based contexts has shown that

According to the economic perspective,intergroup hostility is particularly likely to occur when