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What is the key difference between prejudice and discrimination?
What is the key difference between prejudice and discrimination?
- Prejudice is a learned behavior, while discrimination is an innate attitude.
- Prejudice involves behavior, while discrimination involves attitudes.
- Prejudice involves all three ABC components, while discrimination only involves behavior. (correct)
- Prejudice is a negative attitude towards a group, while discrimination is a positive behavior towards them.
What is the primary reason why we generally conform, comply, and obey authority figures?
What is the primary reason why we generally conform, comply, and obey authority figures?
- To please our authority figures
- To avoid social rejection
- To gain social power
- Because it's in our own best interests and everyone else's (correct)
What is conformity, according to the text?
What is conformity, according to the text?
- A change in thoughts, feelings, or actions due to direct commands
- A change in behavior due to social norms
- A change in thoughts, feelings, or actions due to real or imagined group pressure (correct)
- A change in attitudes due to obedience
Why is recognizing and resisting destructive forms of obedience important in social psychology?
Why is recognizing and resisting destructive forms of obedience important in social psychology?
What is obedience, according to the text?
What is obedience, according to the text?
What is NOT a characteristic of obedience, conformity, and compliance?
What is NOT a characteristic of obedience, conformity, and compliance?
What is the tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors and underestimate the impact of external factors on a person's behavior?
What is the tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors and underestimate the impact of external factors on a person's behavior?
What is the phenomenon where people blame the victim, such as saying that homeless people should just get a job?
What is the phenomenon where people blame the victim, such as saying that homeless people should just get a job?
What is the motivation behind the self-serving bias?
What is the motivation behind the self-serving bias?
Which bias is characterized by crediting success to internal factors and blaming failure on external factors?
Which bias is characterized by crediting success to internal factors and blaming failure on external factors?
What is the outcome of the fundamental attribution error in the context of student learning?
What is the outcome of the fundamental attribution error in the context of student learning?
What is the common theme among the attributional biases discussed?
What is the common theme among the attributional biases discussed?
What is the primary difference between an actor's and an observer's attribution?
What is the primary difference between an actor's and an observer's attribution?
What is the term for the tendency to attribute other people's behavior to personality factors, while attributing our own behavior to situational factors?
What is the term for the tendency to attribute other people's behavior to personality factors, while attributing our own behavior to situational factors?
Which of the following is an example of the fundamental attribution error?
Which of the following is an example of the fundamental attribution error?
What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?
What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?
What is the primary component of prejudice?
What is the primary component of prejudice?
What is the term for the tendency to attribute our own successes to internal factors, while attributing our failures to external factors?
What is the term for the tendency to attribute our own successes to internal factors, while attributing our failures to external factors?
