WCU HUM 370 STUDY GUIDE | WEST COAST UNIVERSITY HUMANITIES PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Beliefs - ANS ✔✔Inferences about reality
Attitudes - ANS ✔✔Consist of a cluster of beliefs
Values - ANS ✔✔Combination of attitudes that will generate choices and actions
Bias - ANS ✔✔A preference or inclination, favorable or unfavorable, which inhibits impartial
judgment
Stereotype - ANS ✔✔A positive or negative trait or traits ascribed to a certain group and to
most members of that group
Prejudice - ANS ✔✔A negative attitude toward a group and persons perceived to be members
of that group; being predisposed to behave negatively toward members of the group
Bigotry - ANS ✔✔Extreme negative attitudes leading to hatred of a group and persons regarded
as members of the group
Discrimination - ANS ✔✔Actions or practices carried out by a member(s) of dominant groups,
or their representatives, that have a differential and negative impact on a member(s) of
subordinate groups
RACE - ANS ✔✔is an unscientific, social concept of human difference based on skin color, or the
perception of physical difference in the color or skin
, ETHNICITY - ANS ✔✔which refers to the cultural and historical origins of one's family
NATIONALITY - ANS ✔✔which refers to the nation of one's citizenship
MINORITY GROUPS - ANS ✔✔are socially defined subordinate groups in a society that have less
power than the members of the dominant (majority) group
Prejudice - ANS ✔✔1. Denial
2. Victim-Blaming
3. Avoidance
Denial - ANS ✔✔Denying the existence or significance of prejudice or discrimination
VICTIM-BLAMING - ANS ✔✔Identifying individual deficiencies as the cause of individual
problems rather than discrimination against a group
Ex: If Blacks weren't so sensitive...
AVOIDANCE - ANS ✔✔Acknowledging the existence of prejudice and discrimination against
groups but refusing to address the root causes of their problems
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By offering false or partial solutions:
If we refuse to acknowledge race we could end racism (False)
We could reduce sexism dramatically if we taught about women's contributions to the U. S.
(Partial)
INTERPERSONAL communication - ANS ✔✔A dynamic process of interaction between people in
which they assign meaning to each other's verbal and nonverbal behavior
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Beliefs - ANS ✔✔Inferences about reality
Attitudes - ANS ✔✔Consist of a cluster of beliefs
Values - ANS ✔✔Combination of attitudes that will generate choices and actions
Bias - ANS ✔✔A preference or inclination, favorable or unfavorable, which inhibits impartial
judgment
Stereotype - ANS ✔✔A positive or negative trait or traits ascribed to a certain group and to
most members of that group
Prejudice - ANS ✔✔A negative attitude toward a group and persons perceived to be members
of that group; being predisposed to behave negatively toward members of the group
Bigotry - ANS ✔✔Extreme negative attitudes leading to hatred of a group and persons regarded
as members of the group
Discrimination - ANS ✔✔Actions or practices carried out by a member(s) of dominant groups,
or their representatives, that have a differential and negative impact on a member(s) of
subordinate groups
RACE - ANS ✔✔is an unscientific, social concept of human difference based on skin color, or the
perception of physical difference in the color or skin
, ETHNICITY - ANS ✔✔which refers to the cultural and historical origins of one's family
NATIONALITY - ANS ✔✔which refers to the nation of one's citizenship
MINORITY GROUPS - ANS ✔✔are socially defined subordinate groups in a society that have less
power than the members of the dominant (majority) group
Prejudice - ANS ✔✔1. Denial
2. Victim-Blaming
3. Avoidance
Denial - ANS ✔✔Denying the existence or significance of prejudice or discrimination
VICTIM-BLAMING - ANS ✔✔Identifying individual deficiencies as the cause of individual
problems rather than discrimination against a group
Ex: If Blacks weren't so sensitive...
AVOIDANCE - ANS ✔✔Acknowledging the existence of prejudice and discrimination against
groups but refusing to address the root causes of their problems
_________________________________________
By offering false or partial solutions:
If we refuse to acknowledge race we could end racism (False)
We could reduce sexism dramatically if we taught about women's contributions to the U. S.
(Partial)
INTERPERSONAL communication - ANS ✔✔A dynamic process of interaction between people in
which they assign meaning to each other's verbal and nonverbal behavior
