Social Psychology Exam 3 Questions With
Correct Answers
prejudice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a preconceived negative judgement
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of a group and its individuals members
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stereotype - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a belief about the personal
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attributes of a group of people; are sometimes overgeneralized,
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inaccurate, and resistant to new information
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discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-unjustified negative behavior
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toward a group or its members
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racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(1) an individual's prejudicialattitudes
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and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race or 2)
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institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that
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subordinate people of a given race | | | | |
sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(1) an individual's prejudicial attitudes
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and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given sex or (2)
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institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that
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subordinate people of a given sex | | | | |
,social dominance orientation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a motivation to
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have one's group dominate other social groups
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authoritarian personality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a personality that is
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disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups
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and those lower in status
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social identity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the we aspect of our self-
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concept that comes from our group memberships
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ingroup - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a group of people who share a sense
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of belonging, a feeling of common identity
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outgroup - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a group that people perceive as
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distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup
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ingroup bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency to favor one's own
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group
terror management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-people's self-protective
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emotional and cognitive responses when confronted with reminders of
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their mortality
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, outgroup homogeneity effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-perception of
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outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup
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members; they are alike but we are diverse
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own-race bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency for people to more
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accurately recognize faces of their own race
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stigma consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a person's expectation of
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being victimized by prejudice or discrimination
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group-serving bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-explaining away outgroup
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member's positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to
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their dispositions while excusing such behavior by one's own group
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just-world phenomenon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency of
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people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get
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what they deserve and deserve what they get
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subtyping - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-accommodating individual's who
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deviate from one's stereotype by thinking of them as exceptions to the
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rule
Correct Answers
prejudice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a preconceived negative judgement
| | | | | | |
of a group and its individuals members
| | | | | |
stereotype - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a belief about the personal
| | | | | | | |
attributes of a group of people; are sometimes overgeneralized,
| | | | | | | | |
inaccurate, and resistant to new information
| | | | |
discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-unjustified negative behavior
| | | | | |
toward a group or its members
| | | | |
racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(1) an individual's prejudicialattitudes
| | | | | | |
and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race or 2)
| | | | | | | | | | |
institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that
| | | | | | | | |
subordinate people of a given race | | | | |
sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(1) an individual's prejudicial attitudes
| | | | | | | |
and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given sex or (2)
| | | | | | | | | | |
institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that
| | | | | | | | |
subordinate people of a given sex | | | | |
,social dominance orientation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a motivation to
| | | | | | | |
have one's group dominate other social groups
| | | | | |
authoritarian personality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a personality that is
| | | | | | | |
disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups
| | | | | | | | | |
and those lower in status
| | | |
social identity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the we aspect of our self-
| | | | | | | | |
concept that comes from our group memberships
| | | | | |
ingroup - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a group of people who share a sense
| | | | | | | | | | |
of belonging, a feeling of common identity
| | | | | |
outgroup - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a group that people perceive as
| | | | | | | | |
distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup
| | | | | | |
ingroup bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency to favor one's own
| | | | | | | | | |
group
terror management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-people's self-protective
| | | | | |
emotional and cognitive responses when confronted with reminders of
| | | | | | | | |
their mortality
|
, outgroup homogeneity effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-perception of
| | | | | | |
outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup
| | | | | | | | | | |
members; they are alike but we are diverse
| | | | | | |
own-race bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency for people to more
| | | | | | | | |
accurately recognize faces of their own race
| | | | | | |
stigma consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a person's expectation of
| | | | | | |
being victimized by prejudice or discrimination
| | | | | |
group-serving bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-explaining away outgroup
| | | | | | |
member's positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to
| | | | | | | |
their dispositions while excusing such behavior by one's own group
| | | | | | | | |
just-world phenomenon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency of
| | | | | | |
people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
what they deserve and deserve what they get
| | | | | | |
subtyping - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-accommodating individual's who
| | | | | |
deviate from one's stereotype by thinking of them as exceptions to the
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rule
