APA exam 2 Questions and Answers
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schemas - ✔✔cognitive structures that dictate how we process and organize
information, influencing our attention and memory.
change blindness - ✔✔failing to notice changes in the environment
stereotype threat - ✔✔a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a
negative stereotype
confirmation bias - ✔✔a tendency to search for information that supports our
preconceptions and to ignore contradictory evidence
stereotype - ✔✔a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief
about a group of people. can be positive/negative and accurate/inaccurate.
prejudice - ✔✔A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic
or racial minority.
Discrimination - ✔✔unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members
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, oriental - ✔✔term that has historically been used to categorize Asian individuals in a
way that emphasizes exoticism and otherness.
Perpetual Foreigner - ✔✔A stereotype in America applied mainly to Asian Americans.
No matter how long they or their families have lived in the country, they are still not
seen as True Americans, they are still seen as foreigners.
racism - ✔✔being mean to another person intentionally because of their racial
background
Systemic Racism - ✔✔the idea that racism has been part of the US since its founding
and that it continues to be reproduced through various institutions, such as the
educational system and the criminal justice system
Racial formation theory - ✔✔racial identity is fluid and dependent on concurrent
political, economic, and social factors. Deconstructed and Reconstructed historically to
reinforce the power and privilege attached to whiteness.
model minority - ✔✔The stereotype that Asian Americans are more academically and
economically successful than other racial minority groups due to hard work and
adherence to the 'American dream'.
asexual men - ✔✔The stereotype that Asian American men are perceived as less
masculine and not attractive.
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schemas - ✔✔cognitive structures that dictate how we process and organize
information, influencing our attention and memory.
change blindness - ✔✔failing to notice changes in the environment
stereotype threat - ✔✔a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a
negative stereotype
confirmation bias - ✔✔a tendency to search for information that supports our
preconceptions and to ignore contradictory evidence
stereotype - ✔✔a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief
about a group of people. can be positive/negative and accurate/inaccurate.
prejudice - ✔✔A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic
or racial minority.
Discrimination - ✔✔unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members
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, oriental - ✔✔term that has historically been used to categorize Asian individuals in a
way that emphasizes exoticism and otherness.
Perpetual Foreigner - ✔✔A stereotype in America applied mainly to Asian Americans.
No matter how long they or their families have lived in the country, they are still not
seen as True Americans, they are still seen as foreigners.
racism - ✔✔being mean to another person intentionally because of their racial
background
Systemic Racism - ✔✔the idea that racism has been part of the US since its founding
and that it continues to be reproduced through various institutions, such as the
educational system and the criminal justice system
Racial formation theory - ✔✔racial identity is fluid and dependent on concurrent
political, economic, and social factors. Deconstructed and Reconstructed historically to
reinforce the power and privilege attached to whiteness.
model minority - ✔✔The stereotype that Asian Americans are more academically and
economically successful than other racial minority groups due to hard work and
adherence to the 'American dream'.
asexual men - ✔✔The stereotype that Asian American men are perceived as less
masculine and not attractive.
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