Exam 13: Prejudice: Causes and Cures

The underlying reason why stereotype threat can undermine the performance of members of a group with respect to some ability is that the experience of stereotype threat fosters

Although psychologists usually refer to prejudice only in a ____ sense,it is possible for a person to have a ____ prejudice about a particular group.

"Klee style" versus "Kandinsky style," blue eyes versus brown eyes,and tall versus short all represent meaningless criteria by which to

Recall that Muzafer Sherif and his colleagues (1961)created conflict between two groups of boys in a summer camp.Once in-group cohesiveness was established,they set up a series of competitive situations such as tug-of-war and other competitive games.Conflict between the two groups escalated.This field study provided support for the ____ theory of prejudice.

In the jigsaw puzzle classroom technique,

Consider the following examples of prejudice: anti-Chinese prejudice in the United States after the transcontinental railroad was completed; anti-Mexican prejudice in the United States when agricultural jobs are scarce; anti-Turkish prejudice in Germany after reunification; anti-Arab and anti-Jew prejudice in the Middle East; and anti-immigrant prejudice during times of high unemployment.These examples best illustrate the ____ theory of prejudice.

Alice's three children are driving her crazy.They are constantly squabbling,calling one another names,and generally tormenting one another.To preserve what's left of her sanity,Alice has decided to try to convince the youngsters to get along.Based on the contact hypothesis,what's the best way to do this?

In the U.S.,when times are hard economically and jobs are scarce,realistic conflict theory would predict that

In their classic "doll studies" with African-American children,social psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark (1947)demonstrated the negative effects of prejudice on children's self-esteem.This evidence was used by the Supreme Court to rule that

____ posits that increased prejudice and discrimination result from limited resources and consequent inter- group conflict.

Patricia Devine's (1989)research indicates that both low-prejudiced and high-prejudiced people's stereotypes are ____,but low-prejudiced people want to ____ their stereotypes.

Recall that British social psychologist Henri Tajfel (1982)divided strangers into groups based on such criteria as whether their artistic taste represented a "Klee style" or a "Kandinsky style." Tajfel designed such experiments to determine

Consider the phrase,"The exception proves the rule." How does this phrase reflect prejudicial attitudes in the face of evidence contrary to one's attitude?

Recall that in a study by Charles Bond et al.(1988),the treatment of mental health patients by the staff was examined,and the staff was found to use harsher penalties for violent behavior by black patients than for whites (straitjackets and drugs as opposed to time-outs).This treatment is discriminatory because

____ refers to our tendency to view members of ____ as more similar to one another than they really are.

After reading an article by J.L.Burnet,Alexis gave it rave reviews.If Alexis were informed ahead of time that the article was written by Julie Lynn Burnet and not Jacob Leigh Burnet,how might Alexis's perception of the article change,according to research by Goldberg (1968)presented in your text?

Which of the following concepts is most closely related to a social cognition approach to prejudice?

According to the authors,how does a belief in a just world (Lerner,1980)contribute to blaming the victims of injustice?

Based on the results of Hebl et al.'s (2002)field study on employers' reactions to homosexual job applicants,which of the following interactions is most likely to occur?

Recall that researchers (Henderson-King & Nisbett,1997)found that when an African-American confederate took one minor misstep,white participants were hesitant to interact with another African-American person. These results suggest that