A. Special types of schemas that are part of people’s shared cultural background
B. Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group
C. equivalent prejudice
D. both a and b
Related Mcqs:
- Which is true of social stereotypes?
A. They are always negative
B. They tend to be rational
C. Likeable members of rejected group are perceived as an “exception”
D. University students show more evidence of ethic stereotyping now than they did in the post - In Asch’s study of conformity, subjects:
A. were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simples
B. were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to stranger
C. indicated which of three lines matched a “standard line” in length
D. became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accomplice - ______is speculative statement about the relationship between two or more factors known as variables
A. An operational definition
B. A theory
C. An hypothesis
D. A correlation - Practices that prevent educational participants from raising concerns that are important to them is known as_________?
A. part of the hidden curriculum
B. streaming
C. school socialization
D. silencing - Gender role refers to_________?
A. one’s biological sex
B. a sense of being male or female
C. a set of expected behaviors for males and females
D. how masculine a boy is or how feminine a girls is - ______is best known for his research on conformity.
A. Asch
B. Rubin
C. Schachter
D. Zimbardo - Prejudice based on displaced aggression represents a form of _________?
A. projection
B. discrimination
C. scapegoating
D. authoritarianism - “I always choose romance novels rather than biographies. I guess I must like romance novels better.” This thought process illustrates the premise of_____theory.
A. cognitive dissonance
B. learning
C. evolutionary
D. self- perception - John failed his mate exam but made a touch down during the homecoming game. He took credit for winning the game but blamed his professor for his Mate test failure. This is known as the:
A. Fundamental attribution error
B. Attribution of negative causality
C. Self- serving bias
D. Cognitive dissonance model - Which theory of social change would predict that all societies eventually experience the same kinds of social changes?
A. functionalist
B. conflict
C. unilateral evolutionary
D. evolutionary
