Question: ________________ is the perception that a person will be seen only in terms of a stigmatizing attribute rather than as the total self.
Answer Options:
A) Master status
B) Stereotype threat
C) Stigma consciousness
D) Disidentification
Answer: A) Master status
Question: When asked to describe themselves, students from an ethnic minority are:
Answer Options:
A) equally likely to mention their group identity as students from the ethnic majority.
B) less likely to mention their group identity than students from the ethnic majority.
C) more likely to mention their group identity than students from the ethnic majority.
D) unlikely to mention any group membership.
Answer: C) more likely to mention their group identity than students from the ethnic majority.
Question: ________________ is the expectation of being perceived by other people, particularly those in the majority group, in terms of group membership.
Answer Options:
A) Stereotype threat
B) Disidentification
C) Stigma consciousness
D) Master status
Answer: C) Stigma consciousness
Question: Individuals who score high on ________________ are likely to expect their interactions with others to go poorly.
Answer Options:
A) stereotype threat
B) disidentification
C) stigma consciousness
D) master status
Answer: C) stigma consciousness
Question: When people are conscious of being stigmatized, they:
Answer Options:
A) become less vigilant to signs of prejudice.
B) become more vigilant to signs of prejudice.
C) are less willing to cooperate with others.
D) more willing to cooperate with others.
Answer: B) become more vigilant to signs of prejudice.
Question: A research study found that women expecting to interact with a sexist man were:
Answer Options:
A) quicker to detect sexism-related words during a computer task.
B) slower to detect sexism-related words during a computer task.
C) unable to detect sexism-related words during a computer task.
D) less likely to judge ambiguous facial expressions as showing criticism.
Answer: A) quicker to detect sexism-related words during a computer task.
Question: When Jada interacts with White individuals, she suspects that their perceptions of her are based solely on her being African American. Jada is probably high in _______.
Answer Options:
A) disidentification
B) self-objectification
C) stereotype threat
D) stigma consciousness
Answer: D) stigma consciousness
Question: It is common for people to estimate that they personally experience:
Answer Options:
A) little to no discrimination.
B) less discrimination than the average member of their group faces.
C) more discrimination than the average member of their group faces.
D) an unbearable amount of discrimination.
Answer: B) less discrimination than the average member of their group faces.
Question: The tendency for people to estimate that they personally experience less discrimination than is faced by the average member of their group is _______.
Answer Options:
A) stereotype threat
B) disidentification
C) common ingroup identity
D) person-group discrimination discrepancy
Answer: D) person-group discrimination discrepancy
Question: Experiencing prejudice is especially likely to lead to negative psychological effects such as depression when people:
Answer Options:
A) blame themselves for their stigma.
B) blame others for their stigma.
C) are unaware that they are being stigmatized.
D) do not perceive negative outcomes as being the result of prejudice.
Answer: A) blame themselves for their stigma.
Question: Research shows that when Native American children and young adults are primed with Native American–themed sports mascot images:
Answer Options:
A) their self-esteem increases.
B) their self-esteem decreases.
C) they feel better about their community.
D) they imagine themselves achieving more in the future.
Answer: B) their self-esteem decreases.
Question: Women who report being frequent targets of sexism:
Answer Options:
A) show a greater physiological response when they believe they have not personally been targeted by bias.
B) show a greater physiological response when they believe they have been personally targeted by bias.
C) report an indifference toward bias.
D) show a greater psychological response but not physiological response when they believe they have been targeted by bias.
Answer: B) show a greater physiological response when they believe they have been personally targeted by bias.