Prejudice Quiz

The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life are superior to all others is known as _______.

Ethnocentrism

Asking people their willingness to work with or be employed with people of different ethnic backgrounds measures their level of _____.

Social Distance

The owner of a car dealership refuses to hire a female applicant not because he feels women are incompetent, but because he fears that customers will be less likely to buy a car from a woman. According to Merton, the owner is being a(n) ______.

Reluctant Liberal

Many U.S citizens blame immigrants for social problems such as unemployment and crime. The immigrant, in this instance becomes the ________.

Scapegoat

Studies consistently document that increased formal education is associated with ________.

Racial Tolerance

Which of the following is NOT an example of racial profiling ?

High schools and colleges use Indians as mascots for sports teams

Hate crimes are criminal because offenses committed because of the offender's bias against a ______.

All of the above: Race or ethnic group , religious group and Sexual orientation group

A black worker is shown how to perform her factory job by a White male supervisor. According to the contact hypothesis, this situation would be unlikely to reduce prejudice because _____.

The two individuals do not have equal status

Stereotyping is related to self-fulfilling prophecy in that _______.

All of these: It fosters a negative racial climate, people are aware of the negative images others have of them, and it affects how people interact with one another.

The use of race_neutral principals to defend the racially unequal status quo is called ______.

Color-blind racism

When Bosnian Serbs practiced ethnic cleansing of the Muslim population during the 1990s they employed a combination of _____.

Population transfer and genocide

Any police-initiated action based on race , ethnicity, or national origin rather than behavior is called ______.

Racial profiling

Reluctant Liberals are those who __________.

Discriminate if there is social pressure to do so.

Which of the following is an ethnophaulism ?

The personal manager told the applicant that she had excellent work experience for a woman

A person who harbors prejudice but will not discriminate if it costs money or reduces profits is called a(n) __________.

Timid Bigot

Scapegoating theory ______.

Explains why people blame others for their own shortcomings.

A hispanic college student from the southwest U.S arrives at college to find her roommate is a Jewish woman from New York, as they get to know one another, they are able to overcome their initial prejudices and grow to appreciate each other's strengths and talents. This is an example of the _______.

Contact hypothesis

When people are faced with facts that contradict stereotypes they hold, they are most likely to _________.

Ignore the facts

Equal opportunity legislation is likely to influence the behavior of __________.

Reluctant liberals

Stereotypes are generalizations about all members of a group that _______________.

All of these;

a) are unreliable

b) are exaggerated

c) do not take individual differences into account