Final Exam Study Guide (Psych of Diverisity)

chapter 8-12 quiz questions

which of the following traits is part of the cultural stereotype of obese individuals?

all answers are correct

Bessenoff and Sherman (2000) found that participants’ distancing themselves from an obese interaction partner was best predicted by:

automatic obesity prejudice

Crandall (1994) found that exposing participants to a message about the uncontrollable nature of obesity led to ___ evaluations of an obese person

more positive

permanent weight loss is rare, suggesting that:

weight is not as controllable as most people believe

compared with black and hispanic women, white women:

have body dissatisfaction at lower weights

in school, obese girls ____ more than obese boys

all of the above

comparing school-age students with and without obesity, students with obesity have ___ grades and ____ intelligent scores as students without obesity

lower ; the same

hiring practices discriminate against obese job applicants primarily because of employment managers’ :

implicit weight prejudice

according to research in 1998, obese women’s earning power was about ___ of their thin counterpart

60%

negative evaluations of obese people has been demonstrated in which of the following groups of health professionals?

all of the above

successful aging involves:

all of the above

according to research, the most common emotional reaction to older people is…

pity

according to research, we are anxious around older people because :

all of the above

according to Cuddy et al’s (2005) research, when education was used to try to reduce old age stereotyping, which aspect of the old age stereotype resisted change?

that old people are incompetent

among older characters on television, who is portrayed more negatively?

older women

the feeling of being stigmatized by others because of who you are seen with is called:

courtesy stigma

Being “found out” by others as having a disliked or negatively stereotyped characteristic is most consistent with which conceptualization of stigma?

stigma is situationally determined

blame and judgement would be most likely associated with reactions to someone with:

lung cancer

in a study of well-being among AIDS victims, those with the most anxiety and depression were those who:

concealed their illness

Walton and Spencer’s (2009) meta-analysis showed that when stereotype threat is experimentally eliminated:

minority students perform better than majority group students

who is more likely to experience psychological distress as a result of stigma?

children

when stigmatized people deliberately behave in ways that contradict the assumptions held about their abilities or character, that is called:

compensation

which is a strategy for protecting stigmatized people against threats to psychological well-being?

attributing a negative outcome to prejudice

Alex, a gay man, will be able to protect his psychological well-being the most if he compares his outcomes to:

Mark, a gay man

True or False: being the object of others’ help and sympathy can damage one’s self-esteem

true

imagined intergroup contact consists of:

all of the above

personal contact with outgroup members makes us:

both a and c

becoming aware of and trying to control your own prejudices

all of the above

cross-categorization work because:

both a and c are correct

empathy:

all of the above