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Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotyping

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Question 1

What are the three distinct but related aspects of bias against social groups that social psychologists identify?

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Question 2

What is the definition of 'blatant biases' as described in the chapter?

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Question 3

What is the core belief of individuals who score high on Social Dominance Orientation (SDO)?

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Question 4

How does Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) primarily differ from Social Dominance Orientation (SDO)?

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Question 5

What does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) primarily measure?

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Question 6

According to Social Identity Theory, what is the primary origin of outgroup disliking?

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Question 7

What is 'aversive racism'?

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Question 8

The Stereotype Content Model proposes that we judge social groups along which two primary dimensions?

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Question 9

Within the Stereotype Content Model, which emotional prejudice is associated with groups perceived as high in warmth but low in competence?

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Question 10

According to the Stereotype Content Model, how are groups like rich people and 'outsiders good at business' typically stereotyped?

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Question 11

What is the key feature of what the chapter refers to as '20th Century Biases'?

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Question 12

What does Self-Categorization Theory add to Social Identity Theory?

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Question 13

What emotional prejudice, according to the Stereotype Content Model, is associated with groups perceived as low in both warmth and competence, such as homeless people?

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Question 14

The combination of high scores on which two personality scales predicts joining hate groups that openly endorse aggression?

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Question 15

What kind of bias does the 'model minority' stereotype represent within the framework of the Stereotype Content Model?

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Question 16

In the study by Word, Zanna, & Cooper (1973) about job interviews, how did the interviewers' 'automatic or implicit biases' manifest?

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Question 17

What is the definition of a 'stereotype' provided in the chapter's vocabulary section?

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Question 18

According to the chapter, people who are high in Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) tend to be attracted to what types of occupations?

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Question 19

What is the primary motivation behind the ingroup favoritism described in Social Identity Theory?

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Question 20

The study by Katz & Braly from 1933, which found that college students unabashedly thought Turkish people were 'cruel, very religious, and treacherous,' is used as an example of what type of bias?

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Question 21

What is the defining feature of 'subtle biases' according to the chapter's vocabulary section?

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Question 22

According to the Stereotype Content Model, what are the four kinds of associated emotional prejudices that result from the combinations of warmth and competence?

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Question 23

A person who dislikes an outgroup member moving into their neighborhood because they believe it disrupts the social hierarchy is likely exhibiting which personality trait?

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Question 24

What is the consequence of ingroup favoritism when justifying preferential treatment for one's own group?

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Question 25

In the context of subtle biases, what does it mean for a bias to be 'ambivalent'?

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Question 26

Which of the following is an example of a paternalistic stereotype as described by the Stereotype Content Model?

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Question 27

What is the fundamental belief that underpins Social Dominance Orientation (SDO)?

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Question 28

Why is ingroup favoritism considered an 'ambiguous' form of bias?

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Question 29

What is the relationship between a person's explicit values and their automatic associations, according to the chapter?

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Question 30

According to Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), why might a homeowner dislike an outgroup member moving into their neighborhood?

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Question 31

In the context of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), what does a slower reaction time to pair an outgroup with 'good' words likely indicate?

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Question 32

Which term describes behavior that advantages or disadvantages people merely based on their group membership?

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Question 33

People who are high in Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) respect group unity over what?

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Question 34

According to the chapter, a stereotypical view of which group falls into the Stereotype Content Model's high-warmth, low-competence quadrant, leading to feelings of pity?

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Question 35

What does the chapter suggest is a consequence of the human tendency for own-group preference?

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Question 36

What term is used to describe conscious beliefs and feelings that people are perfectly willing to admit, which mostly express hostility toward other groups?

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Question 37

According to the text, a person high in SDO would likely be upset if an outgroup member moved into their neighborhood primarily because it disrupts what?

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Question 38

When people learn about a new group, what is the first question they want to answer, according to the Stereotype Content Model?

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Question 39

What does the term 'old-fashioned biases' refer to in the chapter?

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Question 40

Which quadrant of the Stereotype Content Model elicits the emotional prejudice of 'disgust'?

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Question 41

What is the term for an unexamined racial bias that a person does not intend and would reject, but that leads them to avoid interracial contact?

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Question 42

In general, what kind of traits do people who score high on Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) tend to have?

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Question 43

Which theory describes the tendency for people to favor their own ingroup over another's outgroup?

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Question 44

What is the defining characteristic of the emotional reaction aversive racists feel in interracial interactions?

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Question 45

The Stereotype Content Model is used to understand what kind of biases in particular?

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Question 46

What are the two personality scales discussed in the chapter as illustrative of blatant biases?

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Question 47

The feeling of pride, within the Stereotype Content Model, is an emotional prejudice typically directed towards which group?

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Question 48

What is a primary difference in how people high in SDO and people high in RWA would react to an outgroup member?

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Question 49

What kind of real-world discrimination can result from the automatic associations measured by the IAT?

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Question 50

What is the second piece of information people want to know about a new group, after assessing their intentions, according to the Stereotype Content Model?

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