FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER THIRTEEN

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER THIRTEEN

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Question 1: Jigsaw Classroom

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A classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice and raise the self-esteem of children by placing them in small, desegregated groups and making each child dependent on the other children in the group to learn the course material and do well in the class.Question 2: One reason stereotypes are so insidious and persistent is the human tendency to make _____ attributions.

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dispositional.Question 3: According to Weber and Crocker (1983) people will gradually modify their stereotypical beliefs if you present them with two or three powerful disconfirming pieces of evidence.

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False

Question 4: The bigot’'s cry, “"They all look alike to me,”" illustrates one consequence of social

categorization called the:

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perception of out-group homogeneity.Question 5: Which of the following is true about the jigsaw classroom and its effects?

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Students depend on each other for the class material. and Students in jigsaw classrooms show a decrease in prejudice and stereotyping compared to students in traditional classrooms. and Students in jigsaw classrooms show an increase in self-esteem compare Question 6: Furnham and Gunter (1984) have found that negative attitudes toward the poor and

homeless are more prevalent among individuals who:

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have a strong belief in a “"just world.”

Question 7: Discrimination

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Unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group simply because of his or her membership in that group.Question 8: Research by Patricia Devine and Andrew Elliot (1995) indicates that stereotypes are fading in American society.

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False Question 9: The tendency to blame victims for their victimization is typically motivated by the desire to see the world as

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a fair and just place.Question 10: Word, Zanna, and Cooper (1974) found that when African Americans are interviewed by whites, they are likely to perform less well than white interviewees. This is

explained best by:

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the self-fulfilling prophecy.

Question 11: found that when AA students are given a test that they are told measures their intellectual ability they perform _ the white students do. When they are told that the test does not measure their intellectual ability they perform _ the white students do.

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worse than; as well as

Question 12: Social categorization is both useful and necessary.

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True

Question 13: Out-group perception

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The perception that individuals in the out-group are more similar to each other than they really are, as well as more similar than the members of the in-group are.

Question 14: Ultimate Attribution Theory

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The tendency to make dispositional attributions about an entire group of people.Question 15: R believes that the homeless man he sees every day when he goes to work is lazy and just does not want to work. In fact, R thinks all homeless people are lazy. When R makes dispositional attributions about an entire group of people he is committing the:

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ultimate attribution error.Question 16: According to Devine’'s (1989) two-step model of cognitive processing, simply knowing stereotypes that you do not believe affects your cognitive processing because:

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the stereotypes are automatically activated.Question 17: Institutional racism and sexism arise when:

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people live in a society where stereotypes and discrimination are normative.

Question 18: Stereotypes result from our tendency to:

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categorize people and events.

Question 19: Blaming the Victim

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The tendency to blame individuals (make dispositional attributions) for their victimization, typically motivated by a desire to see the world as a fair place.

Question 20: Realistic COnflict Theory

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The idea that limited resources lead to conflict between groups and result in increased prejudice and discrimination.Question 21: According to Gordon Allport, stereotypes result:

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from our efforts to maximize our cognitive time and energy.Question 22: Illusory correlations are especially likely to be found between minorities and

unrelated events because minorities are:

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distinctive Question 23: Attributing a higher level of motivation to successful females than to successful

males may be one way of:

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implying that the successful female has less actual skill than her male counterpart.

Question 24: Modern Racism

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Outwardly acting unprejudiced while inwardly maintaining prejudiced attitudes.Question 25: In the jigsaw classroom, if one student in a group is having difficulty mastering his

or her material, other members will benefit most if they:

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encourage the student and ask friendly, probing questions.