Question: In her now famous classroom exercise, Jane Elliott divided her class into two groups based on _______.
Answer Choices:
A) gender
B) eye color
C) race
D) religion
Answer: b. eye color
Question: By providing an opportunity for students to experience prejudice, Jane Elliott taught her class a lesson in _______.
Answer Choices:
A) self-objectification
B) terror management
C) disidentification
D) perspective taking
Answer: d. perspective taking
Question: Having people engage in an exercise of perspective taking has been shown to:
Answer Choices:
A) increase prejudice.
B) decrease distancing from a minority group member.
C) increase death anxiety.
D) decrease willingness to help minority group members.
Answer: b. decrease distancing from a minority group member.
Question: Self-affirmation has been shown to _______.
Answer Choices:
A) increase anxiety
B) decrease self-esteem
C) decrease prejudice
D) increase prejudice
Answer: c. decrease prejudice
Question: __________________ is the idea that group identities should be ignored and that people should be judged solely on their individual merits.
Answer Choices:
A) Multicultural ideology
B) Colorblind ideology
C) Cultural relativism
D) Social dominance orientation
Answer: b. Colorblind ideology
Question: ________________ is a worldview in which different cultural identities and viewpoints are acknowledged and appreciated.
Answer Choices:
A) Ingroup harmony
B) Cultural relativism
C) Colorblind ideology
D) Multicultural ideology
Answer: d. Multicultural ideology
Question: ________________ is a view that offers an alternative to the colorblind ideology by focusing on the idea of embracing diversity.
Answer Choices:
A) Ingroup harmony
B) Cultural relativism
C) Diversity ideology
D) Multicultural ideology
Answer: d. Multicultural ideology
Question: The colorblind approach suggests that people should:
Answer Choices:
A) avoid focusing on group identity.
B) try to focus on group identity.
C) not try to improve intergroup relations.
D) accept their tendencies to be prejudiced.
Answer: a. avoid focusing on group identity.
Question: Multiculturalism suggests that people should:
Answer Choices:
A) avoid focusing on group identity.
B) approach group differences as something to be celebrated.
C) not try to improve intergroup relations.
D) accept their tendencies to be prejudiced.
Answer: b. approach group differences as something to be celebrated.
Question: Michelle believes that people should not try to ignore differences between groups but should instead celebrate the diversity that distinct groups offer. Michelle favors the:
Answer Choices:
A) multicultural ideology.
B) colorblind ideology.
C) social dominance ideology.
D) authoritarian ideology.
Answer: a. multicultural ideology
Question: A master status is the perception that a person will:
Answer Choices:
A) strive to be superior to others.
B) be seen only in terms of a stigmatizing attribute rather than as the total self.
C) always be prejudiced by those who are more mature.
D) will define themselves largely based on the groups that he or she belongs to.
Answer: b. be seen only in terms of a stigmatizing attribute rather than as the total self.
Question: If an ethnic minority is conscious of being a member of a stigmatized group, he or she is likely to:
Answer Choices:
A) become less vigilant to signs of prejudice.
B) become more vigilant to signs of prejudice.
C) be less willing to cooperate with others.
D) be more willing to cooperate with others.
Answer: b. become more vigilant to signs of prejudice.
Question: Research found that women are more likely to detect sexism-related words during a computer task if they:
Answer Choices:
A) are expecting to interact with a sexist man.
B) are high in social dominance orientation.
C) have low body-esteem.
D) are low in self-objectification.
Answer: a. are expecting to interact with a sexist man.
Question: The person-group discrimination discrepancy is:
Answer Choices:
A) the tendency to be more racist towards certain groups.
B) an example of ingroup bias.
C) an example of self-objectification.
D) the tendency for people to estimate that they personally experience less discrimination than is faced by the average member of their group.
Answer: d. the tendency for people to estimate that they personally experience less discrimination than is faced by the average member of their group.
Question: When females perceive themselves as primarily being objects to be looked at and judged they are engaging in _______.
Answer Choices:
A) stereotype threat
B) self-objectification
C) ingroup bias
D) disidentification
Answer: b. self-objectification
Question: One of the speculated causes of self-objectification is:
Answer Choices:
A) a cultural worldview that promotes equal treatment of women.
B) body shame.
C) being exposed repeatedly to idealized images of women’s bodies.
D) disordered eating.
Answer: c. being exposed repeatedly to idealized images of women’s bodies.
Question: Stereotype threat is:
Answer Choices:
A) the concern that one might do something to confirm a negative stereotype about one’s group either in one’s own eyes or the eyes of someone else.
B) the tendency to use stereotypes when one feels threatened.
C) the concern that stereotypes are ultimately true.
D) the tendency to believe stereotypes threaten one’s sense of self-esteem.
Answer: a. the concern that one might do something to confirm a negative stereotype about one’s group either in one’s own eyes or the eyes of someone else.
Question: Stereotype lift is:
Answer Choices:
A) when one successfully does not engage in stereotypic thinking.
B) when people perform well despite the existence of a negative stereotype.
C) the result of ingroup bias.
D) when one gets a performance boost as the result of being reminded of a positive stereotype.
Answer: d. when one gets a performance boost as the result of being reminded of a positive stereotype.
Question: Which of the following statements is true?
Answer Choices:
A) Stereotype threat depletes cognitive resources.
B) Stereotype threat increases self-esteem.
C) Stereotype lift decreases self-esteem.
D) Stereotype threat improves intergroup relations.
Answer: a. Stereotype threat depletes cognitive resources.
Question: Social identity threat is the feeling that:
Answer Choices:
A) you need to disidentify with your group.
B) everyone dislikes your group.
C) your group simply is not valued in a domain and that you do not belong there.
D) you should not identify with stigmatized groups.
Answer: c. your group simply is not valued in a domain and that you do not belong there.
Question: An engineering department at a university wants to increase the number of female engineering majors and graduates. Which of the following strategies would BEST help with this goal?
Answer Choices:
A) hiring female professors that could serve as role models
B) ignoring gender
C) hiring more male professors
D) asking professors to always make gender salient prior to any test
Answer: a. hiring female professors that could serve as role models