Socl Quiz Chapter 9

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Sterotype

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A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people

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Racism

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Institutional practices that subordinate people of a given race

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An example of racism

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Mr. Jones' refusal to rent his apartments to Chinese

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Data from 27 countries shows that people everywhere perceive women as more _____, men as more _____

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agreeable; outgoing

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To judge from what Americans tell survey takers, racial prejudice toward African-Americans

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has decreased since the early 1940s

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Jackman and Senter (1981) found that both men and women think that

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women are more "emotional"

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The text indicates that, until recently, prejudice was greatest in regions where slavery was practiced. This fact is consistent with the principle that _____ breeds prejudice

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unequal status

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A consistent finding is that however religious commitment is assessed

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the very devout are less prejudiced

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Gordon Allport has concluded: "The role of _____ is paradoxical." It makes prejudice and unmakes prejudice

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Religion

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Cultural attitudes are embodied and reinforced in

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- Schools
- Government
- Media

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To judge from what Americans tell survey takers, racial prejudice toward African Americans

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has decreased since the early 1940s

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Jackman and Senter (1981) found that both men and women think that

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women are more emotional

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The text indicates that, until recently, prejudice was greatest in regions where slavery was practiced. This fact is consistent with the principle that _________ breeds

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unequal status

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A consisent finding is that however religious commitment is assessed

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the very devout are less prejudiced

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Gordon Allport has concluded: "The role of _____ is paradoxical. It makes prejudice and it unmakes prejudice."

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Religion

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Cultural attitudes are embodied and reinforced in

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- Schools
- Government
- Media

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A group of people who share a sense of belonging or a feeling of a common identity is an

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ingroup

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The Favoring of one's own group that takes place with an ingroup bas reflexts

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- A liking for the ingroup
- A dislike for the outgroup

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A tendency to facor one's group is

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an ingroup bias

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The tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their same race is called the

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own-race bias

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Your new roommate introduces himself as having an Irish and Tahitian background. Your are most likely to introduce your roommate to your friends as

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Tahitian

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The just-world phenomenon can lead people to think

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- That the winners of a lottery actually deserved their good fortune
- That sick people are responsible for their illness
- The poor people don't deserve better

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______ occurs when a new sterotype is formed about groups of individuals who don't fit their sterotype

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Subgrouping

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Mr. Smith, a high school speech teacher, communicates to his class that he thi9nks boys tend to be less anxious and thus make better speeches than girls. As a result, some of the girls in his class become apprehensive in preparing and giving speeches in Mr. Smith's class. The girls are experiencing:

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stereotype threat

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Because we are sensitve to distinctive events, the simultaneous occurrence of two such events is especially noticebale. Our attentiveness to unusual occurrences can create

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Illusory correlations

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A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people.

(Overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information)

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Stereotype

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A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members

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Prejudice

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Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members

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Discrimination

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An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race

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Racism

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Institutional practices (even if not moticated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given sex

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Sexism

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Institutional preactces (even if not moticated by prejudice) that subordante people of a given race.

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Racism

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An individual's prejudical attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given sex

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Sexism

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A motivation to hae one's group deominate other social groups

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Social Dominance orientation

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Believing in the superiority of one;s own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups.

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Ethnocentric

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The theory that prejudice arises from competion between groups for scarce resources.

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Realistic group conflict theory

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"Us" - a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity

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Ingroup

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"Them" - a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup

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Outgroup

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A set of behavior expectations (norms) for males and females

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Gender Roles

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When the cause of our frustration is intimidating or unknown, we often redirect our hostility.

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Displaced aggression