Question: According to rejection identification theory:
Answer Choices:
A) people want to reject being part of a minority group.
B) minority group status leads to lower feelings of belongingness.
C) people can gain a sense of psychological security by strongly identifying with their stigmatized group.
D) members of minority groups want to disidentify with these groups.
Answer: c. people can gain a sense of psychological security by strongly identifying with their stigmatized group.
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
Question: According to rejection identification theory:
Answer Choices:
A) people want to reject being part of a minority group.
B) minority group status leads to lower feelings of belongingness.
C) people can gain a sense of psychological security by strongly identifying with their stigmatized group.
D) members of minority groups want to disidentify with these groups.
Answer: c. people can gain a sense of psychological security by strongly identifying with their stigmatized group.
Question: People who have a high tolerance of ambiguity tend to be:
Answer Choices:
A) low in the need for structured knowledge.
B) high in the need for structure knowledge.
C) low in self-esteem.
D) high in self-esteem.
Answer: a. low in the need for structured knowledge.
Question: Which of the following is NOT one of the three factors of right-wing authoritarianism?
Answer Choices:
A) authoritarian submission
B) colorblindness
C) conventionalism
D) authoritarian aggression
Answer: b. colorblindness
Question: People who think the world would be better off if everyone knew and accepted their place in the social order are high in the trait of:
Answer Choices:
A) social dominance orientation
B) conventionalism
C) need for structure
D) self-objectification
Answer: a. social dominance orientation
Question: Process 2 of the dual process approach to prejudice focuses on:
Answer Choices:
A) reflexive processes
B) reflective processes
C) coordinated processes
D) physiological processes
Answer: b. reflective processes
Question: Which of the following is NOT one of Allport’s four principal ingredients for positive intergroup contact?
Answer Choices:
A) equal status between groups in the situation
B) contact that is intimate and varied
C) institutional support
D) the motive to avoid being prejudiced
Answer: d. the motive to avoid being prejudiced
Question: Climate change is something that affects all humans. Thus, seeking to combat climate change is an example of:
Answer Choices:
A) terror management.
B) a superordinate goal.
C) social dominance.
D) stereotype lift.
Answer: b. a superordinate goal.
Question: When groups are equal in status, they are more likely to:
Answer Choices:
A) have negative attitudes toward one another.
B) get along.
C) discriminate against one another.
D) have low self-esteem.
Answer: b. get along.
Question: The multicultural ideology is a worldview in which:
Answer Choices:
A) group identities are ignored and people are treated solely as individuals.
B) groups are believed to naturally vary in their place in the social hierarchy.
C) cultural identities are changed so that everyone feels a sense of common humanity.
D) cultural identities and viewpoints are acknowledged and appreciated.
Answer: d. cultural identities and viewpoints are acknowledged and appreciated.