Ultimate UCF SOP 3004 Exam 3
questions and answers
What is prejudice? - correct answer ✔✔A preconceived negative judgement of a group and its
individual members
What is stereotyping? - correct answer ✔✔A belief about the personal attributes of a group of
people. Stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new
information (and sometimes accurate)
What is discrimination? - correct answer ✔✔Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its
members
What is racism? - correct answer ✔✔An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory
behavior toward people of a given race, or institutional practices (even if not motivated by
prejudice) that subordinate people of a given race
What is sexism? - correct answer ✔✔An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory
behavior toward people of a given sex, or institutional practices (even if not motivated by
prejudice) that subordinate people of a given sex
Benevolent and Hostile Sexism - correct answer ✔✔Benevolent sexism is saying that "Women
have a superior moral sensibility"
Hostile sexism is saying that "Once a man commits, she puts him on a tight leash"
How does status relate to prejudice? - correct answer ✔✔Unequal status breeds prejudice.
Upper-class individuals are more likely than those in poverty to see people's fortunes as the
outcomes they have earned, thanks to skill and effort, and not as the result of having
connections, money, and good luck.
,How does the self-fulfilling prophecy impact discrimination? - correct answer ✔✔Prejudice
effects its targets. When white interviewers treat black interviewees with less respect, they
perform worse.
What is stereotype threat? - correct answer ✔✔A disruptive concern, when facing a negative
stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. Unlike self-fulfilling
prophecies that hammer one's self-concept, stereotype threat situations have immediate
effects
Social Identity Theory - correct answer ✔✔The "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our
answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships
Ingroups - correct answer ✔✔"Us" - a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling
of common identity
Outgroups - correct answer ✔✔"Them" - 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
How are ingroups established? - correct answer ✔✔We are so group conscious that, given any
excuse to think of ourselves as a group, we will do so.
When are ingroups most likely to occur? - correct answer ✔✔We are more prone to ingroup
bias when our group is small and lower in status relative to the outgroup. When our group is the
majority, we think less about it.
, How does conformity maintain prejudice? - correct answer ✔✔If perjudice is socially accepted,
many people will follow the path of least resistance and conform to the fashion. They will not
act not so much out of a need to hate as out of a need to be liked and accepted.
Realistic Conflict Theory - correct answer ✔✔The theory that prejudice arises from competition
between groups for scarce resources
Authoritarian Personality (RWA) - correct answer ✔✔A personality that is disposed to favor
obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status.
Categorization, when are we most likely to stereotype? - correct answer ✔✔Stereotypes
sometimes offer a beneficial ratio of information gained to effort expended. Stereotypes
represent cognitive efficiency. They are energy saving schemes for making speedy judgements
and predicting how others will think and act.
Outgroup Homogeneity Effect - correct answer ✔✔Perception of outgroup members as more
similar to one another than are ingroup members. Thus "they are alike, we are diverse."
What role does distinctiveness and vivid cases play in our experience of prejudice and
stereotyping? - correct answer ✔✔Distinctive people and vivid or extreme occurances often
capture attention and distort judgements.
The extra attention we pay to distinctive people creates an illusion that they differ from others
more than they really do. If people thought you had the IQ of a genius, they would probably
notice things about you that otherwise would pass unnoticed.
Vivid instances, though more available in memory, seldom represent the larger 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
Aggression - correct answer ✔✔Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone
questions and answers
What is prejudice? - correct answer ✔✔A preconceived negative judgement of a group and its
individual members
What is stereotyping? - correct answer ✔✔A belief about the personal attributes of a group of
people. Stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new
information (and sometimes accurate)
What is discrimination? - correct answer ✔✔Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its
members
What is racism? - correct answer ✔✔An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory
behavior toward people of a given race, or institutional practices (even if not motivated by
prejudice) that subordinate people of a given race
What is sexism? - correct answer ✔✔An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory
behavior toward people of a given sex, or institutional practices (even if not motivated by
prejudice) that subordinate people of a given sex
Benevolent and Hostile Sexism - correct answer ✔✔Benevolent sexism is saying that "Women
have a superior moral sensibility"
Hostile sexism is saying that "Once a man commits, she puts him on a tight leash"
How does status relate to prejudice? - correct answer ✔✔Unequal status breeds prejudice.
Upper-class individuals are more likely than those in poverty to see people's fortunes as the
outcomes they have earned, thanks to skill and effort, and not as the result of having
connections, money, and good luck.
,How does the self-fulfilling prophecy impact discrimination? - correct answer ✔✔Prejudice
effects its targets. When white interviewers treat black interviewees with less respect, they
perform worse.
What is stereotype threat? - correct answer ✔✔A disruptive concern, when facing a negative
stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. Unlike self-fulfilling
prophecies that hammer one's self-concept, stereotype threat situations have immediate
effects
Social Identity Theory - correct answer ✔✔The "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our
answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships
Ingroups - correct answer ✔✔"Us" - a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling
of common identity
Outgroups - correct answer ✔✔"Them" - 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
How are ingroups established? - correct answer ✔✔We are so group conscious that, given any
excuse to think of ourselves as a group, we will do so.
When are ingroups most likely to occur? - correct answer ✔✔We are more prone to ingroup
bias when our group is small and lower in status relative to the outgroup. When our group is the
majority, we think less about it.
, How does conformity maintain prejudice? - correct answer ✔✔If perjudice is socially accepted,
many people will follow the path of least resistance and conform to the fashion. They will not
act not so much out of a need to hate as out of a need to be liked and accepted.
Realistic Conflict Theory - correct answer ✔✔The theory that prejudice arises from competition
between groups for scarce resources
Authoritarian Personality (RWA) - correct answer ✔✔A personality that is disposed to favor
obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status.
Categorization, when are we most likely to stereotype? - correct answer ✔✔Stereotypes
sometimes offer a beneficial ratio of information gained to effort expended. Stereotypes
represent cognitive efficiency. They are energy saving schemes for making speedy judgements
and predicting how others will think and act.
Outgroup Homogeneity Effect - correct answer ✔✔Perception of outgroup members as more
similar to one another than are ingroup members. Thus "they are alike, we are diverse."
What role does distinctiveness and vivid cases play in our experience of prejudice and
stereotyping? - correct answer ✔✔Distinctive people and vivid or extreme occurances often
capture attention and distort judgements.
The extra attention we pay to distinctive people creates an illusion that they differ from others
more than they really do. If people thought you had the IQ of a genius, they would probably
notice things about you that otherwise would pass unnoticed.
Vivid instances, though more available in memory, seldom represent the larger 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
Aggression - correct answer ✔✔Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone
