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What is a stereotype?

• A collection of beliefs that we have about the people who belong to a certain group

• What we think about other people because we know them

• Our opinion of a group/person based on our interactions with them

• Something that helps us to make new friends

Which of the following is not a type of social cognition?

• Person perception

• Attributions

• Attitude formation

• Social hierarchy

What is a benefit of stereotyping?

• Stereotypes give us general guide for our interactions with others

• Stereotypes can be inaccurate

• Can often lead to prejudice and judging people unfairly

• Explains our own and other people's behaviour

What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

• Prejudice is your behaviour towards a person/group and Discrimination is your attitude towards them

• Prejudice leads to discrimination

• Prejudice is your attitude towards a person/group and Discrimination is your behaviour

• Prejudice is when you hold a negative attitude towards others, Discrimination is when you don't hold a negative attitude

Which of the following isn't a way prejudice forms?

• Learning processes including repeated exposure

• Cognitive behavioural therapy

• Ingroups and Outgroups

• Stereotyping

Select the definition of reward power

• Ability to remove rewards/give punishments

• Power to give rewards/take away punishments

• Person’s status and power in a group gives them authority

• Having special knowledge or skills that are desirable/needed

Select the definition for Expert power

• Having special knowledge or skills that are desirable/needed

• People identify with or want to be liked by this person.

• Having resources/information that are not available elsewhere

• Person’s status and power in a group gives them authority

What is intergroup contact?

• a goal that cannot be achieved by any one group alone and overrides other existing goals which each group might have

• ongoing contact either directly or indirectly over a period of time

• increasing direct contact between two groups who are prejudiced against each other

• changing the way in which someone thinks about prejudice

Which of the following is not a way attitudes are formed?

• Classical conditioning

• Superordinate goal

• Operant conditioning

• Repeated exposure