Question: Which of the following is one of Allport’s four principal ingredients for positive intergroup contact?
Answer Options:
A) equal status between groups in the situation
B) contact that is not intimate
C) contact that involves groups working toward divergent goals
D) positive mood
Answer: A) equal status between groups in the situation
Question: Research suggests that different groups are more likely to get along if:
Answer Options:
A) they keep to themselves and do not interact much with one another.
B) there is a clear social hierarchy in place.
C) they are equal in status.
D) they are working toward divergent group goals.
Answer: C) they are equal in status.
Question: Which of the following would be a barrier to intergroup cooperation and harmony?
Answer Options:
A) equal status between groups
B) a superordinate goal
C) institutional support
D) a lack of intimate contact
Answer: D) a lack of intimate contact
Question: The Robbers Cave study provided support for the importance of _______.
Answer Options:
A) social dominance orientation
B) superordinate goals
C) self-objectification
D) keeping groups separate
Answer: B) superordinate goals
Question: The Robbers Cave study demonstrated that:
Answer Options:
A) a shared threat can promote intergroup cooperation.
B) a shared threat can undermine intergroup cooperation.
C) self-objectification can lead to emotional distress.
D) mortality salience can increase ingroup bias.
Answer: A) a shared threat can promote intergroup cooperation.
Question: Research showed that focusing people’s attention on a shared threat can __________ the effect of __________ on anti-Arab prejudice.
Answer Options:
A) reduce; arousal
B) increase; arousal
C) reduce; mortality salience
D) increase; mortality salience
Answer: C) reduce; mortality salience
Question: The sense of common humanity can _______.
Answer Options:
A) increase prejudice
B) decrease prejudice
C) increase social dominance orientation
D) decrease self-esteem
Answer: B) decrease prejudice
Question: One reason optimal contact creates positive change is because it _______.
Answer Options:
A) increases self-esteem
B) increases anxiety
C) decreases self-esteem
D) decreases anxiety
Answer: D) decreases anxiety
Question: One reason optimal contact creates positive change is because it _______.
Answer Options:
A) increases stereotyping
B) decreases stereotyping
C) decreases empathy
D) promotes self-serving biases
Answer: B) decreases stereotyping
Question: One reason optimal contact creates positive change is because it _______.
Answer Options:
A) fosters empathy
B) increases stereotyping
C) decreases empathy
D) promotes self-serving biases
Answer: A) fosters empathy
Question: ________________ is an ideology that endorses seeing the value of different cultural identities.
Answer Options:
A) Multiculturalism
B) Colorblindness
C) Cultural relativism
D) Social dominance orientation
Answer: A) Multiculturalism
Question: ________________ is a recategorizing of members of two or more distinct groups into a single, overarching group.
Answer Options:
A) Ingroup bias
B) Disidentification
C) Common ingroup identity
D) Intergroup harmony
Answer: C) Common ingroup identity
Question: Ahmed sees people of different races as ultimately being part of the same group of human beings. Ahmed sees people as having:
Answer Options:
A) distinct group identities.
B) a common ingroup identity.
C) natural social hierarchies.
D) natural intergroup conflict.
Answer: B) a common ingroup identity
Question: The Green Circle program for elementary school students provided support for the concept of _______.
Answer Options:
A) social dominance
B) terror management
C) ingroup bias
D) common ingroup identity
Answer: D) common ingroup identity
Question: The jigsaw classroom can be an effective way to:
Answer Options:
A) decrease intrinsic motivation.
B) harm self-esteem.
C) decrease self-objectification.
D) decrease prejudice.
Answer: D) decrease prejudice
Question: In her now famous classroom exercise, Jane Elliott divided her class into two groups based on _______.
Answer Options:
A) gender
B) eye color
C) race
D) religion
Answer: B) eye color