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PSYC140 Final Questions and Answers
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Prejudice [ Ans: ] an unjustifiable hostile or negative attitude
toward a group or its members
Discrimination [ Ans: ] unjustifiable negative or harmful behavior
toward a group or its members (behavioral component of
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prejudice)
Stereotyping [ Ans: ] a belief about the personal attributes of a
group of people (cognitive component of prejudice)
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Institutional supports of prejudice [ Ans: ] schools, govt, or media
increase prejudice through overt policies such as segregation, or
by passively reinforcing the status quo. Ex. banks denying
mortgages to minority groups before the 1970's
Role of self-fulfilling prophecies in prejudice [ Ans: ] people's role
affects their behaviors, examples of this are this are the job
interview studies
Job interview studies (Word, Zanna, & Cooper, 1974) STUDY 1 [
Ans: ] black and white applicants were interviewed by white
interviewers, researchers wanted to see if the white interviewers
perceived and treated applicants diff depending on their race,
they found evidence of discrimination, they had chairs with
wheels where they measured where their chair was, results-
Interviewers sat farther, stammered more, and ended the
interview sooner when the applicant was black, IV- whether the
applicant was black or white, DV- how the white interviewers
acted
Job interview studies (Word, Zanna, & Cooper, 1974) STUDY 2 [
Ans: ] the interviewers were trained to behave like the black
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applicant or white applicant style, results- white applicants were
more nervous and less effective when interviewed in the "black
applicant style," This showed that when white people were
treated like black people they did more bad on the interviews
(self-fulfilling prophecy)
Job interview studies (Word, Zanna, & Cooper, 1974) STUDY
REVISITED [ Ans: ] Procedure- applicants wearing "gay and
proud" vs "Texan and proud" hats inquired about mall jobs, The RAs
didn't know which hats they were wearing, to avoid the self-
fulfilling prophecy, Results- mall employees were more likely to say
no jobs were available, and ended the conversation sooner,
when the applicant wore the "Gay and Proud" hat
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Stereotype threats [ Ans: ] a self-confirming apprehension that
one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype, example
of this is the math performance study
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Math performance study (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999) [ Ans: ]
men and women were given a difficult math test, IV- "no gender
diff expected" vs "males tend to do better," Results- women scored
lower than men, but only in the "males tend to do better"
condition
Minimal groups [ Ans: ] meaningless groups formed by grouping
strangers in the basis of trivial criteria
In-group bias [ Ans: ] the tendency to feel positively towards and
favor one's own group "us" (minimal group ex.)
out-group derogation [ Ans: ] the tendency to put down and
treat unfairly other groups "them" (minimal group ex.)
The authoritarian personality [ Ans: ] people believe in strict
beliefs, strict discipline, they don't like weakness (people who are
higher in authoritarian personality are higher in prejudice)
Scapegoating [ Ans: ] blaming someone else for your problems,
results from displaced frustration
Role of categorization in prejudice [ Ans: ] people tend to
conserve, put people into groups to simplify the world,
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PSYC140 Final Questions and Answers
(100% Correct Answers) Already Graded
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Prejudice [ Ans: ] an unjustifiable hostile or negative attitude
toward a group or its members
Discrimination [ Ans: ] unjustifiable negative or harmful behavior
toward a group or its members (behavioral component of
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prejudice)
Stereotyping [ Ans: ] a belief about the personal attributes of a
group of people (cognitive component of prejudice)
Guru01 - Stuvia
Institutional supports of prejudice [ Ans: ] schools, govt, or media
increase prejudice through overt policies such as segregation, or
by passively reinforcing the status quo. Ex. banks denying
mortgages to minority groups before the 1970's
Role of self-fulfilling prophecies in prejudice [ Ans: ] people's role
affects their behaviors, examples of this are this are the job
interview studies
Job interview studies (Word, Zanna, & Cooper, 1974) STUDY 1 [
Ans: ] black and white applicants were interviewed by white
interviewers, researchers wanted to see if the white interviewers
perceived and treated applicants diff depending on their race,
they found evidence of discrimination, they had chairs with
wheels where they measured where their chair was, results-
Interviewers sat farther, stammered more, and ended the
interview sooner when the applicant was black, IV- whether the
applicant was black or white, DV- how the white interviewers
acted
Job interview studies (Word, Zanna, & Cooper, 1974) STUDY 2 [
Ans: ] the interviewers were trained to behave like the black
, 2
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applicant or white applicant style, results- white applicants were
more nervous and less effective when interviewed in the "black
applicant style," This showed that when white people were
treated like black people they did more bad on the interviews
(self-fulfilling prophecy)
Job interview studies (Word, Zanna, & Cooper, 1974) STUDY
REVISITED [ Ans: ] Procedure- applicants wearing "gay and
proud" vs "Texan and proud" hats inquired about mall jobs, The RAs
didn't know which hats they were wearing, to avoid the self-
fulfilling prophecy, Results- mall employees were more likely to say
no jobs were available, and ended the conversation sooner,
when the applicant wore the "Gay and Proud" hat
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Stereotype threats [ Ans: ] a self-confirming apprehension that
one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype, example
of this is the math performance study
Guru01 - Stuvia
Math performance study (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999) [ Ans: ]
men and women were given a difficult math test, IV- "no gender
diff expected" vs "males tend to do better," Results- women scored
lower than men, but only in the "males tend to do better"
condition
Minimal groups [ Ans: ] meaningless groups formed by grouping
strangers in the basis of trivial criteria
In-group bias [ Ans: ] the tendency to feel positively towards and
favor one's own group "us" (minimal group ex.)
out-group derogation [ Ans: ] the tendency to put down and
treat unfairly other groups "them" (minimal group ex.)
The authoritarian personality [ Ans: ] people believe in strict
beliefs, strict discipline, they don't like weakness (people who are
higher in authoritarian personality are higher in prejudice)
Scapegoating [ Ans: ] blaming someone else for your problems,
results from displaced frustration
Role of categorization in prejudice [ Ans: ] people tend to
conserve, put people into groups to simplify the world,
