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Question 41

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What conclusion did Carl Word and his associates arrive at after conducting experiments on whites interviewing minorities for a job?

A) White male interviewers spent more time with blacks in the interviewing because they did not want to be labeled as prejudicial.
B) White male interviewers spent more time with women in the interviews because they were aware of affirmative action.
C) White male interviewers spent less time with blacks and sat farther away, which caused the interviewee to become more nervous.
D) White male interviewers spent less time with women but more time with blacks because all the blacks were males and the interviewers identified more with the males than females.

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According to research by Thibodeau, from the 1940s to the 1960s, the number of blacks depicted in stereotypic roles in New Yorker cartoons ________.

A) increased because of more prejudice in society
B) decreased, but still there was only one main black cartoon figure
C) increased, and there were 12 main black figures
D) decreased, and there were 17 main black figures

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The "ultimate attribution error" has been defined by Pettigrew as:

The IAT (Implicit Association Test) measures the _______ associations between words and/or words and pictures.

Crocker found that the greatest amount of prejudice was between groups that were economically:

Suppose you asked students to write stories about black and white characters. Some students were prejudiced against blacks, and others were not. Some students were frustrated just before they wrote the stories, and others were not. Generalizing from a similar experiment, you would guess that the group that would write most negatively about blacks in their stories were:

A study by Florence Geis and her colleagues on the effects of television commercials on women's aspirations found that:

Devah Pager's research with college graduates interviewing for jobs revealed that which group was LEAST likely to be called back for an interview?

Recent research has shown that children who cooperate with each other in interdependent classroom situations:

Frey and Gaertner's study found that whites were less likely to offer help to black students who requested help if they were told information that ______ their stereotype of African Americans.

According to The Social Animal, the jigsaw technique was successful because:

Attribution theory is most concerned with explaining the:

The research study about "Mark Flick" the basketball player demonstrated that people use stereotypes of African Americans that:

What is Aronson's conclusion about stereotyping and prejudice?

How did America see the Chinese during the 19th century?

According to the ultimate attribution error, if subjects thought a harm-doer was black, they would be more likely to attribute his action to ________. When they thought he was white, they would be more willing to attribute his action to ________.

The process of blaming innocent and powerless others for our troubles is called:

Aronson argues that the evidence linking IAT (Implicit Association Test) scores with overt behavior is:

In the Lerner experiment, in which subjects observed the experimenter flipping a coin to decide which of two people would be rewarded for his work, it was later found that:

The many examples of recent incidents of prejudice by the authors at the beginning of Chapter 7 illustrate that: