Question 1

Imagine that you are a teacher and want to put the principles of the jigsaw classroom into practice.Describe a class activity that you could use and explain how it should help promote more positive intergroup attitudes.

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Question 2

Evaluate the claim that racial diversity is sufficient to create positive intergroup relations.What conditions are necessary for contact between diverse groups to be beneficial?

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Question 3

Give an example of how superordinate goals could be used to improve intergroup relations on a college campus.

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Question 4

Give an example of the outgroup homogeneity effect and explain why it occurs.

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Question 5

Surveys of participants in the Seeds of Peace program,which brings together Israeli and Palestinian teenagers for a three-week summer camp experience,showed that participation in the program led to more favorable intergroup attitudes.Nine months after the program,these attitudes

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The question states that the surveys were conducted nine months after the program, and the only option that suggests a decrease in attitudes is C, which would be counterproductive for the program's goals. A is unlikely, as positive attitudes may not necessarily become even more favorable over time. D is also unlikely as it is rare for attitudes to remain constant over a long period of time. Therefore, option B is the best choice, which suggests that while attitudes may have decreased somewhat, they were still more favorable than they had been at the beginning of the program.

Question 6

How do threats to self-esteem impact people's attitudes toward outgroup members? Provide one example of a relevant study.According to social identity theory,why do self-esteem threats have this effect?

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Question 7

Describe two characteristics of college campuses that may undermine positive intergroup contact.Then,list one approach that educators have used to try to promote positive contact.

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Question 8

What advantage do indirect measures of prejudice,such as the IAT,have over direct self-report measures,such as the Attitudes toward Blacks Scale?

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Question 9

Give an example of an experiment that uses the minimal group paradigm and explain how the use of this paradigm contributes to our understanding of how an "us versus them" mentality is formed.

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Question 10

Evaluate the claim that positive stereotypes such as "Asians are good at math" are not harmful.Describe research presented in the textbook to support your arguments.

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Question 11

Imagine that you want to design an implicit association test (IAT)to assess prejudice toward people who are overweight.Describe how you might design such a test and explain what response patterns would indicate greater prejudice.

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Question 12

Define and distinguish between stereotyping,prejudice,and discrimination.Give an example of a situation in which these three processes might NOT co-occur.

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Question 13

According to the textbook,all of the following are changes that can be made on a societal level to reduce stereotyping,prejudice,and discrimination EXCEPT to

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Foster competition between groups so that each group is motivated to improve is not a recommended approach to reduce stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination because it can actually increase intergroup tension and further perpetuate negative stereotypes. The other choices (honoring and enforcing civil rights laws, reducing biased media portrayals of stigmatized groups, and giving groups more opportunities to work together to achieve common goals) are all effective ways to address these issues on a societal level.

Question 14

Give an example of a situation in which a person might maintain stereotypes about an outgroup through the use of abstract versus concrete construals of an outgroup member's behavior.Under what circumstances would someone be likely to use one type of construal over the other?

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Question 15

Give a real-world example of ethnocentrism and describe how it affects behavior toward ingroup and outgroup members.

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Question 16

Define modern racism and give an example of one method that researchers have used to measure it.

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Question 17

Define stereotype threat and give an example of a situation in which a person may experience it.

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Quiz 11: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination