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WorksheetsSocial Psychology 3
Total questions: 68
Worksheet time: 3hrs 24mins
What is a Prejudice?
Unfavourable attitude towards a social group and its members.
Discrimination against people based on their gender.
Discrimination against people based on their ethnicity or race.
Discrimination against people based on their age.
What are Allport's three components of a Prejudice?
Conative
Cognitive
Affective
Reactive
What is the Prejudice paradox?
Prejudice is socially undesirable, yet it pervades social life.
Prejudice is hurtful to experience but fun to inflict.
Prejudice is non-existent but seen everywhere.
A good name for a Nolan movie.
While Attitudes beget Behaviour, Prejudice begets...
Discrimination
Anger
Rebellion
Genocide
The stereotype that woman are nice but incompetent while men are competent but not nice is pervasive throughout many cultures.
True
False
How should I know, I'm a woman...
There is correspondence between knowing about stereotypes and believing in them when individuals are _____.
Highly prejudiced
Moderately prejudiced
Not prejudiced
Housewife, career woman and athlete are some _____ of female stereotypes.
Subtypes
Domtypes
Topforms
Bottomforms
What is the Glass Ceiling?
An invisible barrier that prevents women, and minorities, from attaining top leadership positions.
A tendency for women rather than men to be appointed to precarious leadership positions associated with a high probability of failure and criticism.
Unfavourable attitude towards a social group and its members.
Publicly being favouring a minority group in order to deflect accusations of Prejudice against that group.
What is the Glass Cliff?
An invisible barrier that prevents women, and minorities, from attaining top leadership positions.
A tendency for women rather than men to be appointed to precarious leadership positions associated with a high probability of failure and criticism.
Unfavourable attitude towards a social group and its members.
Publicly being favouring a minority group in order to deflect accusations of Prejudice against that group.
Male success is attributed to ability while female success is attributed to luck.
True
False
I'm feeling lucky
What is Affirmative Action?
Policies including particular groups in areas in which they are underrepresented.
Discriminating the majority group to deflect accusations of prejudice.
Publicly making small concessions to a minority group in order to deflect accusations of prejudice.
Group attributes that mediate a negative social evaluation of people belonging to the group.
The proximity in which people are willing to stand next to each other can be used to detect what?
Racism
Sexism
Ageism
Feminism
Finish the list: A.) _____, Baby Boomers, B.) _____, Millennials
a.) Traditionalists
a.) Generation W
b.) Generation X
b.) Generation Y
The young generally have little to do with the elderly, so intergenerational encounters tend to activate A.) _____rather than B.) _____ perceptions.
a.) Intergroup
a.) Interpersonal
b.) Interpersonal
b.) Intergroup
When was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1973
1965
1988
2014
When was same-sex marriage legalised in Malta?
2017
2006
1996
1982
_____ may be patronised to or considered warm but incompetent.
People with disabilities
Minorities
Homosexuals
Lactose intolerant people
Hiding family members who have _____ problems prevents them from seeking help from health services and sustains the prejudice.
Mental health
Physical health
Physical disabilities
Developmental issues
Prejudices may be covertly expressed through...
Reluctance to help
Tokenism
Reverse discrimination
Genocide
Dehuminisation
The practice of publicly making small concessions to a minority group in order to deflect accusations of prejudice and discrimination.
Tokenism
Reverse Discrimination
Reluctance to help
Stigma
White participants who had performed a small favour for a black stranger were subsequently _____ willing to engage in more effortful forms of helping than were those who had not performed the small favour.
More
Less
Equally
The practice of publicly being prejudiced in favour of a minority group in order to deflect accusations of prejudice and discrimination against that group.
Reverse Discrimination
Tokenism
Affirmative Action
Flokenism
What is Stigma?
Policies including particular groups in areas in which they are underrepresented.
Discriminating the majority group to deflect accusations of prejudice.
Publicly making small concessions to a minority group in order to deflect accusations of prejudice.
Group attributes that mediate a negative social evaluation of people belonging to the group.
Stigmas may be viewed as...
Controllable
Uncontrollable
Visible
Concealable
____ may have less harsh reactions and less extreme discrimination.
Uncontrollable Stigmas
Controllable Stigmas
Visible Stigmas
Concealable Stigmas
_____ are the outcome of an adaptive cognitive process that helps us avoid poor social exchange partners who may threaten our access to resource or who, by virtue of being different, may carry communicable pathogens.
Stigmas
Prejudices
Attitudes
Discriminatory behaviours
_____ can legitimise inequalities of status and resource distribution that favour a dominant group; it justifies the status quo.
Stigmas
Prejudices
Attitudes
Discriminatory behaviours
What are some negative effects of Tokenism and Reverse Discrimination?
Less commitment and job satisfaction
Develop unrealistic opinions of their abilities and future prospects
Failure to take personal credit for positive outcomes
Negative reaction from members of traditionally advantaged groups
Feeling that we will be judged and treated in terms of negative stereotypes of our group, and that we will inadvertently confirm these stereotypes through our behaviour.
What is Stereotype Threat?
What is Stigma?
What is Racism?
What is Reverse Discrimination?
Expectations and assumptions about a person that influence our interaction with that person and eventually change their behaviour in line with our expectations.
What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
What is Attributional Ambiguity?
What is Reverse Discrimination?
What is Tokenism?
A person hired by a company because of Tokenism or Reverse Discrimination may experience...
Attributional Ambiguity
Relational Jaundice
Physiological Anaemia
Attitude Vengance
What is the most common 'Nature' theory of Prejudice?
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
Relative Deprivation Theory
Attributional Ambiguity
Social Learning Theory
Which personality syndrome originating in childhood predisposes individuals to be prejudiced?
Authoritarian Personality
Histrionic Personality
Obsessive Compulsive Personality
Narcissistic Personality
What is Dogmatism?
A cognitive style that is rigid and intolerant and predisposes people to be prejudiced.
A theory of evolution highlighting man's canine roots.
Resistance to belief change in the light of new information.
A feeling of overwhelming joy and ecstasy when catching a projectile in your mouth.
Which ideological stance may predispose its members to Prejudice?
Right-wing Authoritarianism
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Left-Wing Egalitarianism
Central Free-Market Democracy
Theory that attributes Prejudice to an individual’s acceptance of an ideology that seeks their group to be dominant, and rejects egalitarian ideologies.
Social Dominance Theory
Stereotype Threat
Belief Congruence Theory
Dogmatism and Close-Mindedness
The theory that similar beliefs promote liking and social harmony among people while dissimilar beliefs produce dislike and prejudice.
Belief Congruence Theory
Social Dominance Theory
The Authoritarian Personality
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
What is Social Cognition?
Policies including particular groups in areas in which they are underrepresented.
Discriminating the majority group to deflect accusations of prejudice.
Cognitive processes and structures that influence and are influenced by social behaviour.
Group attributes that mediate a negative social evaluation of people belonging to the group.
Social Cognition follows the behavioural model but adds _____ in between Stimulus and Response.
Reasoning
Faith
Socialisation
Modelling
According to Asch, the word "Warm" is a _____.
Central Trait
Peripheral Trait
Which of the following states that Traits can be Central or Peripheral?
Configural Model
Modal Model
Attitude Spreading Effect
Primacy Effect
A cognitive structure that represents knowledge about a concept or type of stimulus, including its attributes and the relationships among those attributes.
What is a Thought?
What is an Attitude?
What is a Schema?
What is a Stigma?
What are some types of Schemas?
Person Schemas
Role Schemas
Content-Free Schemas
Scripts
Self-Schemas
Knowledge of how to order and pay at a restaurant is known as...
Person Schemas
Role Schemas
Content-Free Schemas
Scripts
Self-Schemas
Knowledge that punching someone in the face will make them angry is known as...
Person Schemas
Role Schemas
Content-Free Schemas
Scripts
Self-Schemas
Knowledge that Will Smith has anger issues is known as...
Person Schemas
Role Schemas
Content-Free Schemas
Scripts
Self-Schemas
Knowledge that bus drivers shouldn't take Tequila shots in front of passengers is known as...
Person Schemas
Role Schemas
Content-Free Schemas
Scripts
Self-Schemas
Schemas may be formed into categories based on _____ or _____.
Prototypes or Exemplars
Hadrons or Quarks
Attitudes or Prejudices
Positive Traits or Negative Traits
Categories in a Schema are organised hierarchally and sorted by...
More inclusive categories
Less inclusive categories
Basic categories
Non-existent categories
Categories can be formed from nodes that connect within what?
Associative Network
Prototype
Exemplar
Heuristic
How do Schemas change?
Bookkeeping
Conversion
Subtyping
Dysmorphia
A slow change of a Schema in the face of accumulating evidence is known as what?
Bookkeeping
Conversion
Subtyping
Dwarfism
A sudden and massive change of a Schema once a critical mass of disconfirming evidence has accumulated is known as what?
Bookkeeping
Conversion
Subtyping
Anhedonia
A schemas morphing into a subcategory to accommodate disconfirming evidence is known as what?
Bookkeeping
Conversion
Subtyping
Regalia
What is Social Representation?
Classifying new things by comparing them to ‘old’ things.
Shared understandings of the world between group members.
Cognitive processes and structures that influence and are influenced by social behaviour.
Group attributes that mediate a negative social evaluation of people belonging to the group.
Social Representation can transform unfamiliar _____ and _____ into familiar ones.
Attitudes and Prejudices
Codes and Metaphors
Visible Stigmas and Concealable Stigmas
Exemplars and Prototypes
What is Anchoring?
Classifying new things by comparing them to ‘old’ things.
Shared understandings of the world between group members.
Cognitive processes and structures that influence and are influenced by social behaviour.
Group attributes that mediate a negative social evaluation of people belonging to the group.
The process by which something new and abstract becomes part of everyday life and common sense is known as...
Anchoring
Objectification
Attitude Spreading
Prototype
Social Representations can be split into...
Periphery
Core
Outskirts
Tangents
The Core of a Social Representation is...
Stable
Shared
Dynamic
Subjective
The Periphery of a Social Representation is...
Stable
Shared
Dynamic
Subjective
What are some Social Representations of bullies in the minds of children?
Bullying as the Work of a Disturbed Bully
Bullying as Revengeful Activity
Bullying as a reaction to Devience
Bullying as a Automatic Response to Nerds
The impressions we form of others are influenced by superficial aspects of their appearance.
True
False
People are slow to change their first impressions on the basis of new information.
True
False
A person who evokes contempt or disregard from others, provokes others, or does not fit into the peer group may be...
Bullied as reaction to devience
Bullying as social positioning
Bullying as the work of a disturbed bully
Bullying as a vengeful activity
A bully who picks on kids as an expression of a struggle for status and power may be bullying due to...
Bullied as reaction to devience
Bullying as social positioning
Bullying as the work of a disturbed bully
Bullying as a vengeful activity
A bully who picks on kids as a result of personal problems may be bullying due to...
Bullied as reaction to devience
Bullying as social positioning
Bullying as the work of a disturbed bully
Bullying as a vengeful activity
A bully who picks on kids as payback may be bullying due to...
Bullied as reaction to devience
Bullying as social positioning
Bullying as the work of a disturbed bully
Bullying as a vengeful activity
