Question: ________________________ is a model suggesting that targets of bias can employ strategies that deflect discrimination, as long as those methods aren’t perceived as confrontational.
Answer Options:
A) Terror management theory
B) Social identity model
C) Stereotype threat
D) Target empowerment model
Answer: D) Target empowerment model
Question: Research found that ________________ can make White American participants more empathetic to concerns about prejudice voiced by Arab Americans.
Answer Options:
A) mortality salience
B) self-affirmation
C) stereotype threat
D) ingroup bias
Answer: B) self-affirmation
Question: Research found that when Black college freshmen expected others to have racial biases against them, they:
Answer Options:
A) disclosed more information about themselves to their White dormitory roommates.
B) disclosed less information about themselves to their White dormitory roommates.
C) refused to interact with members of another race.
D) became confrontational toward members of another race.
Answer: B) disclosed less information about themselves to their White dormitory roommates.
Question: Gay, lesbian, and bisexual teens are _______________ likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers.
Answer Options:
A) no more
B) two times more
C) three times more
D) three times less
Answer: C) three times more
Question: ________________ represents the idea that people can offset the negative consequences of being targeted by discrimination by feeling a strong sense of identification with their stigmatized group.
Answer Options:
A) Rejection identification theory
B) Disidentification
C) Ingroup bias
D) Self-affirmation theory
Answer: A) Rejection identification theory
Question: Which of the following theories suggests that people can gain feeling of psychological security by strongly identifying with their stigmatized group?
Answer Options:
A) terror management theory
B) self-objectification theory
C) self-affirmation theory
D) rejection identification theory
Answer: D) rejection identification theory
Question: Which of the following theories helps explain why members of a stigmatized group often band together?
Answer Options:
A) self-objectification theory
B) rejection identification theory
C) terror management theory
D) self-affirmation theory
Answer: B) rejection identification theory
Question: ________________ is a phenomenon whereby members of stigmatized groups often can be uncertain whether negative experiences are based on their own actions or abilities or are the result of prejudice.
Answer Options:
A) Disidentification
B) Ingroup bias
C) Self-objectification
D) Attributional ambiguity
Answer: D) Attributional ambiguity
Question: Claire was passed over for a promotion at work but is unsure if this was the result of discrimination or if she was simply not the best candidate for the job. Claire’s uncertainty is the result of _______.
Answer Options:
A) self-objectification
B) attributional ambiguity
C) self-affirmation
D) disidentification
Answer: B) attributional ambiguity
Question: An oppositional culture results when:
Answer Options:
A) members of a majority group strive to make their group exclusive.
B) members of a minority group disidentify with their own group.
C) members of a minority group create a group identity that opposes the majority group.
D) members of a majority group oppose prejudice.
Answer: C) members of a minority group create a group identity that opposes the majority group.
Question: Which of the following examples best represents an oppositional culture?
Answer Options:
A) women who identify as computer “geeks”
B) men who identify as computer “geeks”
Answer: A) women who identify as computer “geeks”
Question: Identifying with an oppositional culture:
Answer Options:
A) increases a sense of belongingness.
B) decreases a sense of belongingness.
C) leads to opportunities for success within the majority culture.
D) increases identification with the majority culture.
Answer: B) decreases a sense of belongingness.
Question: ________________ is a complex set of personality traits, including acceptance of authority, preference for well-defined power arrangements in society, adherence to conventional values and moral codes, and black-and-white thinking.
Answer Options:
A) Need for structured knowledge
B) Right-wing authoritarianism
C) Prejudice
D) Authoritarian personality
Answer: D) Authoritarian personality
Question: The F scale was a measure of _______.
Answer Options:
A) authoritarian personality
B) self-affirmation
C) need for structured knowledge
D) discrimination
Answer: A) authoritarian personality
Question: Theodor Adorno proposed the idea of _______________ based on his observation that people who are prejudiced tend to share a cluster of personality traits.
Answer Options:
A) self-objectification
B) oppositional culture
C) terror management
D) authoritarian personality
Answer: D) authoritarian personality