WorksheetsTajfel's Study
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
What behavior investigated in Tajfel’s (1970) study?
Stereotype
Prejudice
Discrimination
Conflict
What method did Tajfel employ in his study?
Survey
Measuring physiological responses
Interview
Experiment
According to Tajfel, what drives individuals to perform discriminatory behavior?
Competition
Obedience
Conformity
Norm
What did Tajfel hypothesize?
Boys are more likely to discriminate others.
Children have a predisposition to behave discriminatively.
Discriminatory behavior appears even without existing negative attitude against other groups.
Discrimination occurs because of conformity.
How did Tajfel eliminate the possibility of existing interpersonal conflict among his participants?
Conducting conflict resolution training prior to the beginning of the experiment.
Screening the participants so that no one in the participant pool had interpersonal conflicts.
Arranging so that participants had no idea which member of his own group and other group he would be giving points to.
Involving confederates in the experiment.
How did Tajfel eliminate the possibility of conformity as a driver of points allocation?
Placing the participants to work at individual cubicles.
Recruiting participants who did not know each other.
Applying time pressure in the experiment.
Recruiting only boys as the participants.
Which option did Tajfel NOT provide to the participants in allocating points?
Giving similar points for one’s own group as well as for the other group (profit-for-all)
Not giving any points at all to both groups (no profit at all)
Giving more points to one’s own group.
Giving more points to one’s own group with big difference with what is given to the other group.
What did Tajfel find in his study?
Participants allocated high points for their own group as well as for the other group.
Participants allocated low points for their own group as well as for the other group.
Participants allocated higher points for the other group.
Participants allocated higher points for their own group.
According to Tajfel’s study, what would happen when individuals encounter more familiar situations that involve their own group and other groups?
They become more discriminative.
They would be less discriminative.
Different situation would bring no difference.
Individuals would anticipate authority figures to mediate possible intergroup conflicts.
How did Tajfel’s study differ from Muzafer Sherif’s study?
Tajfel found that dividing individuals into groups was sufficient to induce discriminatory behavior.
Tajfel found that the reason for discrimination is competition for scarce resources.
Tajfel found that providing groups with common goals would reduce intergroup discrimination.
Tajfel found that discrimination is perceived as an option to obtain justice.
