Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, “Stereotypes can also be conveyed by ____ in popular culture, as when TV shows present an all-white world.”

Answer: Omission

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, “Whether laboratory studies adequately reflect real-life situations is not firmly established. But there is growing evidence, according to social scientists, that hidden biases are related to discriminatory behavior in a wide range of human interactions, from hiring and promotions to choices of housing and schools.”

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, “Discriminatory behavior ranging from slights to hate crimes often begins with negative stereotypes and prejudices.”

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, “In the case of police, bias has been proven to not affect split-second, life-or-death decisions.”

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: False

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, what is defined as “a behavior that treats people unequally because of their group memberships”?

Answer Options:
Prejudice
Discrimination
Stereotype

Answer: Discrimination

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, what is defined as “an exaggerated belief, image, or distorted truth about a person or group”?

Answer Options:
Stereotype
Discrimination
Prejudice

Answer: Stereotype

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, the people at Teaching Tolerance believe that “the IAT procedure may be useful beyond the research purposes for which it was originally developed. It may be a tool that can ____ our thinking about hidden biases: Where do they come from? How do they influence our actions? What can we do about them?”

Answer: Jumpstart

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, which of the following Universities was NOT part of the collaborative research effort of Project Implicit?

Answer Options:
Harvard University
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Howard University

Answer: Howard University

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, “Those who showed greater levels of implicit prejudice toward, or stereotypes of, black or gay people were more unfriendly toward them.”

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, what is defined as “an opinion, prejudgment or attitude about a group or its individual members”?

Answer Options:
Discrimination
Prejudice
Stereotype

Answer: Prejudice

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, social scientists believe that children as early as what age “pick up terms of racial prejudice” even if they don’t really understand their significance?

Answer Options:
3
9
5
7

Answer: 3

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, “Bias is perpetuated by conformity with in-group attitudes and ____ by the culture at large.”

Answer: Socialization

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, “If people are aware of their hidden biases, they can monitor and attempt to ameliorate hidden attitudes before they are expressed through behavior. This compensation can include” what?

Answer Options:
A) Attention to language
B) Body language
C) Stigmatization felt by target groups
D) All of the above
E) A & B but not C

Answer: D) All of the above

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, “It can be easy to reject the results of the tests as ‘not me’ when you first encounter them. But that’s the easy path. To ask where these biases come from, what they mean, and what we can do ____ about them is the harder task.”

Answer: Something

Question: According to the provided resource from Teaching Tolerance, “Recognizing that the problem is in many ____ others — as well as in ourselves — should motivate us all to try both to understand and to act.”

Answer: People