Deck 5: Nativism and Racism

Question 1

Which region would be considered "superior" according to social Darwinistic ideology?

A)Nordic
B)Asian
C)Mediterranean
D)African

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The tendency to rate all out-group members as lower than in-group members is called:

A)prejudice.
B)stereotypes.
C)ethnocentrism.
D)discrimination.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

All of the following categories address the theories of the ways prejudice are caused except:

A)cultural transmission
B)bound up in team sports
C)bound up in group memberships
D)personality structure of individual

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The lines between physical racial boundaries are:

A)NOT clear cut.
B)clear cut.
C)scientifically established.
D)politically based.

Question 5

In Katz and Braly's 1933 study,college students saw Turks as being:

A)intelligent.
B)mercenary.
C)lazy.
D)cruel.

Question 6

The Civil War brought an end to the strife between the natives and first stream immigrants because:

A)most of the immigrants got killed.
B)most of the natives lost loved ones.
C)most of the immigrants proved their loyalty by fighting.
D)most of the non-Whites donated funds.

Question 7

Taking out your frustration on an easy safe target is called:

A)violence.
B)scapegoating.
C)bull dogging.
D)social misalignment.

Question 8

These immigrants were perceived as being threats of revolutionaries.

A)Russians
B)Spanish
C)French
D)Germans

Question 9

________ ________ is the feeling one group member has about how socially proximate another group's members should be able to interact with one's own.

A)Social distance
B)Social stigma
C)Social desirability
D)Social stratification

Question 10

Respondents scoring high on the F-Score scored high on:

A)fascism.
B)frustration-aggression.
C)fanaticism.
D)forensic-orientation.

Question 11

Public statements by majority group members have become more ________ to minority groups over time in the United States.

A)hostile
B)virulent
C)diffuse
D)sympathetic

Question 12

The Immigration Act of 1924 modified the Immigration Act of 1917 in all of the following ways except:

A)changed the base year
B)made the annual quotas set at 165,000
C)raised annual quotas for all countries
D)began National-Origins principle in 1929

Question 13

This researcher relied on estimates of heritability to calculate the relative contributions of heredity and environment to an individual's mental ability.

A)Herrnstein
B)Murray
C)Thurstone
D)Jensen

Question 14

There is massive evidence that visible,phenotypic races are:

A)pure.
B)moderately pure.
C)highly intermixed.
D)slightly intermixed.

Question 15

Native workers and business owners considered Chinese laborers to be:

A)diligent.
B)slaves.
C)dependable.
D)expendable.

Question 16

Mead's 1934 theory focuses on how infants initially view the world from their own ________ perspective.

A)self
B)aggression
C)structural
D)authoritarian

Question 17

America's nativist responses to immigrants included all of the following except:

A)attacks on Catholics.
B)attacks on Protestants.
C)attacks on illiteracy.
D)attacks on political rights of naturalized citizens.

Question 18

Regardless of some of the struggles suffered by First and Second stream immigrants,________ have been more acceptable than non-whites in the United States.

A)Indians
B)Whites
C)Blacks
D)Mediterraneans

Question 19

________ refers to an unfavorable attitude and perhaps an unfavorable action toward people who are members of a particular racial or ethnic group.

A)Ethnocentrism
B)Stereotypes
C)Racism
D)Sexism

Question 20

All of the following are criticisms of The Bell Curve,except:

A)misused media
B)misused statistics
C)It is a political brief.

Question 21

Americans may exhibit a social desirability biasπthat is to say exactly how they feel and get it
all out in the open.

Question 22

Assuming that our actions are always caused by our attitudes is an example of the:

A)fundamental aggression error.
B)fundamental attribution error.
C)systemic deterioration theory.
D)systemic attribution theory.

Question 23

By WWII most scholarly types felt that only heredity affected intelligence.

Question 24

The authors discuss the question,"Do some Americans still ________ today for being members of minorities?"

A)pay the price
B)suffer the pain
C)feel the joy
D)enjoy the benefits

Question 25

No Chinese helped to build U.S.railroads because of the laws.

Question 26

The Chinese rarely found justice for the violence committed against them.

Question 27

The ideas of scientific racism were under strong attack during the twentieth century.

Question 28

The Bell Curve connected IQ to current social problems and race.

Question 29

The relationship between prejudice and discrimination is very simple and obvious.

Question 30

Gould argued that there were multiple types of intelligences.

Question 31

Prejudice and discrimination ________ go together.

A)always
B)do not necessarily
C)absolutely
D)never

Question 32

The authors argue that the door to America was always fully open.

Question 33

Natives feared that European countries were using the United States as its dumping grounds.

Question 34

The authors demonstrate how researchers used science to support their racist ideas.

Question 35

All of the following are categorical theories of discrimination except:

A)aggression.
B)situation pressures.
C)group conflict.
D)institutional.

Question 36

Brigham (1923)found major problems with the Army intelligence tests.

Question 37

Both group conflict theories and institutional discrimination theories emphasize that discrimination has important sources other than:

A)group prejudices.
B)cultural themes in prejudices.
C)individual prejudices.
D)national norms.

Question 38

Bogardus started the research techniques on social distance studies.

Question 39

LaPiere (1934)found that even though 92 percent of hotel owners stated they would not let Chinese stay at their hotel:

A)one hundred percent refused Chinese customers.
B)all let Chinese stay.
C)most let Chinese stay.
D)most let only Whites stay.

Question 40

Most foreigners proved their loyalties during the Civil War.

Question 41

Many studies indicate that dominant group members profit from discrimination.

Question 42

Groups have nothing to do with the assumptions of social identity theory.

Question 43

Authoritarianism is highly related to prejudice.

Question 44

Marx argued that owners lose money when discrimination occurs.

Question 45

Noel (1968)studied how split labor markets impact economic standing.

Question 46

Prejudice must be present to keep the current institutional discrimination system intact.

Question 47

The vicious circle often leads to the self-fulfilling prophecy.

Question 48

LaPiere's study showed that people's behavior depended more on group membership than on
attitudes.