Stereotyping and Prejudice Quiz

Stereotype is an oversimplified generalization about a group of people.

Prejudice is primarily based on feelings or opinions.

Social categorization is the cognitive process of categorizing individuals into social groups based on characteristics like race, gender, and age.

Ethnocentrism is the belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture over others.

Discrimination refers to unjustified negative or harmful actions toward a group member based on their group membership.

Implicit bias is a bias that operates outside of an individual's awareness.

Different objectives is NOT a condition for reducing prejudice according to the contact hypothesis.

The frustration-aggression hypothesis explains prejudice as an expression of aggression arising from frustration.

Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute successes to personal factors and failures to situational factors.

Social identity theory suggests that individuals create in-groups and out-groups to enhance their self-esteem.

Personal conflict is NOT a crucial factor for reducing prejudice through intergroup contact according to Allport's Contact Hypothesis.

Scapegoating is the phenomenon of blaming individuals or groups for wrongs they didn't commit, often based on their social status or ethnicity.

Interdependence is a key component of reducing prejudice according to the jigsaw classroom technique.

Realistic conflict theory posits that intergroup conflict and prejudice arise from competition over scarce resources.

Fundamental attribution error explains the tendency to underestimate external factors and overestimate internal factors in judgments about others' behavior.

Microaggressions are best described as minor, often unconscious, instances of prejudice.

Increasing segregation and reducing intergroup contact is NOT an effective strategy for reducing prejudice and discrimination.

Color-blindness in social psychology refers to an ideological approach that emphasizes ignoring racial differences.

Prejudice, according to social identity theory, is partly due to a need to belong to a distinct group.

Stereotype threat refers to the fear of confirming negative stereotypes about one's group.

Out-group homogeneity effect is the tendency to view members of one's own group as more diverse than members of other groups.

Reducing prejudice through direct intervention programs is an example of structural intervention.

System justification theory suggests that people have a need to view existing social, economic, and political arrangements as fair and legitimate.

Intersectionality primarily addresses the overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination.

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is designed to measure unconscious biases and associations.