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11. Mr. Watson’s belief that Blacks lazy an example of _______. : 1198612
11. Mr. Watson’s belief that Blacks are lazy is an example of _______. His refusal to rent an apartment to a Black family is an example of _______.
A. a stereotype; racism
B. discrimination; prejudice
C. a stereotype; discrimination
D. racism; prejudice
12. Recent research confirms that prejudiced and stereotyped evaluations
A. are more widespread than formerly believed.
B. are higher among females than males.
C. are higher among males than females.
D. can occur outside of one’s conscious awareness.
13. A state police force has set a height requirement of 5 feet 10 inches for all officers. This requirement is irrelevant to job effectiveness but generally excludes Hispanics, Asians, and women from the force. Such a requirement most clearly reflects
A. racism and sexism.
B. scapegoating and discrimination.
C. stereotyping and prejudice.
D. the realistic conflict theory.
14. According to survey research conducted in the U.S., racial prejudice toward African-Americans
A. is worse than ever today.
B. has decreased since the early 1940s.
C. has actually increased since the early 1980s.
D. decreased from 1940 to 1960, then increased until 1980, and has since stabilized.
15. In the 1940s, researchers Clark and Clark (1947) gave African-American children a choice between Black dolls and White dolls. Results showed that most children
A. chose the Black dolls.
B. chose the White dolls.
C. refused to choose between them.
D. used the dolls in aggressive symbolic play.
16. Research has shown that today prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory behavior
A. do not exist.
B. run rampant.
C. surface when they can hide behind a different motive.
D. are more obvious than they have been in the past.
17. Which of the following is not an example of modern prejudice?
A. Americans disliking Muslims
B. Overpraising minorities for their accomplishments
C. Over criticizing minorities for their mistakes
D. Failing to warn a minority student about potential academic difficulty
18. Research concerning automatic prejudices reveals that
A. automatic processing is associated with the frontal cortex.
B. pictures of outgroups that elicit the most disgust elicit more frontal lobe activity.
C. automatic processing is a conscious activity.
D. automatic processing involves primitive areas of the brain associated with fear.
19. Although Marcia says she is not prejudiced against Blacks, she votes against interviewing a job applicant with an African name for a flimsy reason. She is exhibiting what some social science researchers call
A. overt discrimination.
B. automatic processing.
C. modern racism.
D. hidden racism.
20. Greenwald and her colleagues (2003) asked both Black and White participants to press a “shoot” button when the target appeared to be holding a gun (rather than a harmless object such as a flashlight). Their results showed that all participants mistakenly shot at more targets who were
A. White.
B. Black.
C. male.
D. female.
21. In a follow-up to Greenwald et al.’s (2003) study, Plant and colleagues (2011) found that _____ are more likely to be associated with threat and be “shot” in simulations.
A. Black females
B. Black males
C. Muslim females
D. Muslim males
