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Prejudice and discrimination

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Attitude is to behaviour as prejudice is to....

a)

Attitude

b)

Behaviour

c)

Discrimination

d)

Belief

2.

A preconceived negative judgement of a group and its individual members.

a)

Attitude

b)

Behaviour

c)

Racism

d)

Prejudice (prejudgment)

3.

The behavioural expression of prejudice. Unjustified negative behaviour toward a group or its mmembers

a)

Prejudice

b)

Discrimination

c)

Attitude

d)

Ingroup bias

4.

A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. Overgeneralised, inaccurate and resistant to new information.

a)

Stereotypes

b)

Prejudice

c)

Racism

d)

Radiotype

5.

Target of prejudice:

a)

Sex, gender and sexual orientation

b)

Race, ethnicity and culture

c)

Age

d)

All the above

6.

Most frequently used offensive word in schools...

a)

Faggot

b)

Wog

c)

Gay

d)

All the above

7.

Prejudice on basis of sex

a)

Sexjudice

b)

Sexism

c)

Stereotype

d)

All the above

8.

Ambivalent sexism

a)

Benevolent attitude towards women

b)

An ideology where women are above everyone

c)

An ideology composed of both a hostile and benevolent prejudice toward women

d)

A hostile attitude towards women

9.

Hostile sexism

a)

An overtly negative evaluations and stereotypes about a gender

b)

Put women on a pedestal

c)

Against the sexual orientation of people

d)

People who don't like to have sex

10.

Benevolent sexism

a)

When people dress as knights

b)

Ideas that women are incompetent and inferior to men

c)

An ideology where women are put on a pedestal

d)

All the above

11.

prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of a person's age

a)

Discrimination

b)

Sexism

c)

Ageism

12.

Relative prominence of the face in the portrayal of men and women; media tend to focus more on men's faces and women's bodies.

a)

Sexism

b)

Fascism

c)

Face-ism

d)

Attitude towards faces

13.

Levels of prejudice & discrimination

a)

Micro, macro, giant

b)

individuals, groups and institutions

c)

systems, racism, ageism

d)

all the above

14.

Is prejudice declining?

a)

No, it is increasing

b)

Yes, it has been on the decline

c)

No, it has become more subtle

d)

Maybe yes

15.

Practice of publicly being prejudiced in favour of a minority group in order to deflect accusations of prejudice and discrimination against this group.

a)

Reverse racism

b)

Tokenism

c)

Racism

d)

Race bias

16.

Practice of publicly making small concessions to a minority group to deflect accusations of prejudice and discrimination.

a)

Racism

b)

Ingroup bias

c)

Tokenism

d)

Tolkeism

17.

Group attributes that mediate a negative social evaluation of people belonging to the group.

a)

Group discrimination

b)

Group favouritism

c)

Group stigma

d)

Group racism

18.

what does stigma affects?

a)

self-worth, self-esteem & psychological well-being

b)

physical health

c)

psychological health

d)

self-esteem, self-perception & self-reflection

19.

Self-confirming apprehension that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype

a)

Stereotype threat

b)

Negative stereotype

c)

Self-stereotype

d)

All the above

20.

A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behaviour

a)

Stereotype vulnerability

b)

Self-fulfilling prophecy

c)

stereotype threat

d)

Prejudice

21.

Psychological attribution concept describing the difficulty that members of stigmatised or negatively stereotyped groups may have in interpreting feedback.

a)

Stereotype ambiguity

b)

Negative attribution

c)

Attributional ambiguity

d)

Negative feedback

22.

Behaviour among individuals that is regulated by awareness of and identification with different social groups.

a)

Social behaviour

b)

Intergroup behaviour

c)

Ingroup behaviour

d)

Outgroup behaviour

23.

What is in-group identity?

a)

The ‘we’ aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to ‘Who am I?’ that comes from our group memberships.

b)

The theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources

c)

‘Us’—a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity

24.

Out-group Identity is....

a)

‘Them’—a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their in-group.

b)

The tendency to favour one’s own group.

c)

'Us’—a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity.

25.

Tendency for people to feel that responsibility for acting is shared, or diffused, among those present

a)

Diffusion of responsibility

b)

Audience inhibition

c)

Social influence

d)

Bystander effects