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Sample Questions for Midterm 1. Discrimination is the ________ component of negative attitudes toward a group of people.
a.
cognitive
b.
pejorative
c.
affective
d.
behavioral
2. Julian is African American and Mike is White; both are basketball players for high-school teams. They both score same number of baskets and have similar records of assists, rebounds, and free throws. According to information from your text, who would be viewed as having more athletic ability and as having played a better game overall?
a.
Mike
b.
Julian
c.
It depends on the ethnicity of the person you ask.
d.
They would be viewed equally.
3. Men who are “benevolent sexists” have positive feelings about women as a group, but
a.
while their views may be old-fashioned, there is no harm in them.
b.
unconsciously have a strong underlying hatred of women.
c.
are not inclined to put women on a pedestal or idealize them romantically.
d.
their views also serve to justify relegating women to traditional, stereotyped roles.
4. Stereotypes are perpetuated in a culture. Thus, members of a culture may not believe the stereotypes, but most a.
will subscribe to them as adults.
b.
will be aware of what the stereotypes are.
c.
will use them to judge others.
d.
have experiences that are in line with the stereotype.
5. Ken needs help with his algebra homework. He looks around the room at his new roommates and blurts out, “Daniel, you’re good at math, right? You can help me with my homework.” Because Daniel is Japanese American, Ken assumes he’s good at math. This represents a(n)
a.
microaggression.
b.
prejudice.
c.
discrimination.
d.
scapegoat.
6. On the Implicit Association Test, implicit attitudes are revealed by a.
differences in response times to faces when paired with positive words as compared to faces when paired with negative words.
b.
examining the physical distances between individuals when they are interacting with one another.
c.
asking participants to predict their attitude toward gay men, lesbians, and other groups.
d.
changes in physiology revealed by the bogus pipeline.
7. As the only African American in his neuroscience class, Gentry tends to worry about committing errors because he does not want his white counterparts to think that all African Americans are intellectually inferior. Gentry is experiencing
a.
class anxiety.
b.
stereotype threat.
c.
group hostility.
d.
attribution error.
8. Amber considers herself outgoing, upbeat, and talented. She also defines herself as an American, a biologist, and a musician. The first three descriptors represent her _____, and the last three represent her _______.
a.
personal identity; social identity
b.
stereotypes; social identity
c.
social identity; personal identity
d.
personal identity; discriminator
9. When a member of your in-group performs particularly well in a competition, you most likely
a.
are depressed that you did not win.
b. experience a decrease in self-esteem.
c.
experience no change in self-esteem; after all, you didn’t do anything.
d.
experience an increase in self-esteem.
10. The idea that prejudice can be reduced by interacting with members of an out-group is called
the
a.
interactional theory.
b.
mere exposure paradigm.
c.
contact hypothesis.
d.
interpersonal model.
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