Multiple Choice Quizzes

Take the quiz test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood. 

1. Which of the following tends to be a stronger predictor of intergroup discrimination?

  1. Stereotyping
  2. Emotional prejudice
  3. Attitudes
  4. Behavior

Answer:

b. Emotional prejudice

2. Which emotion makes people stereotype relatively more?

  1. Anger
  2. Sadness
  3. Both
  4. Neither

Answer:

a. Anger

3. In studies of intergroup emotions theory (IET), which traits do people respond more quickly to?

  1. Traits that match their self-concept but not necessarily their ingroup concept
  2. Traits that match their ingroup concept but not necessarily their self-concept
  3. Traits that match their self-concept and their ingroup concept
  4. None of the above

Answer:

c. Traits that match their self-concept and their ingroup concept

4. What does it mean for an intergroup representation to be “exemplar-based?”

  1. It focuses on intergroup particulars
  2. It focuses on intergroup abstractions
  3. It focuses on general societal dimensions
  4. Both A and B

Answer:

a. It focuses on intergroup particulars

5. According to enemy images theory, what is the difference between views of allies and enemies?

  1. Goal compatibility
  2. Status
  3. Power
  4. All of the above

Answer:

a. Goal compatibility

6. According to integrated threat theory (ITT), which is NOT an antecedent to threat?

  1. Intergroup relations
  2. Group-based motivations
  3. Individual differences on identity
  4. Cultural dimensions

Answer:

b. Group-based motivations

7. Feelings of guilt promote less prejudiced behavior by:

  1. Low-prejudice respondents
  2. High-prejudice respondents
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

c. Both A and B

8. Often, people who are against affirmative action are most concerned with:

  1. Protecting ingroup members
  2. Derogating outgroup members
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

a. Protecting ingroup members

9. What is a primary difference between guilt and shame?

  1. Guilt is other-oriented; shame is self-oriented
  2. Guilt is self-oriented; shame is other-oriented
  3. Only guilt is a “moral” emotion
  4. Only shame is a “moral” emotion

Answer:

a. Guilt is other-oriented; shame is self-oriented

10. Within-race genetic differences are __________ between-race genetic differences.

  1. Much greater than
  2. Much less than
  3. Not significantly different from
  4. Exactly the same as

Answer:

a. Much greater than

11. Why does intergroup contact not tend to reduce sexism?

  1. Men and women are already in contact
  2. Men and women need each other
  3. Men and women are not often of equal status
  4. All of the above

Answer:

c. Men and women are not often of equal status

12. Ambivalent sexism predicts:

  1. Positive stereotypes of nontraditional women and negative stereotypes about traditional women
  2. Positive stereotypes of traditional women and negative stereotypes about nontraditional women
  3. Either A or B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

b. Positive stereotypes of traditional women and negative stereotypes about nontraditional women

13. Older people tend to be viewed with:

  1. Pity
  2. Sympathy
  3. Condescension
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

14. How does prejudice against gay men and lesbians differ from other prejudices?

  1. Targets control category visibility
  2. Relatively more widespread
  3. Biological determinism is linked to tolerance
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

15. Imagine a person holds a very strong, emotional antipathy towards members of a different social group. This person really hates these outgroup members. This is best classified as an example of which of the following?

  1. Discrimination
  2. Prejudice
  3. Stereotyping
  4. All of the above

Answer:

b. Prejudice

 

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