Exploring Symbolic Prejudice
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What are some of the evidence of continuing prejudice?

  • Social norms regarding the expression of prejudice
  • Changes in racial attitudes
  • Belief in the rightness of keeping minorities at a distance through segregation
  • Bogus pipeline research (correct)

    • What changed after the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

  • Racism became more prevalent
  • Jim Crow racism continued
  • Racial equality developed as an American norm (correct)
  • Minority group members experienced more discrimination

    • Why do people sometimes act in prejudiced ways despite expressing nonprejudiced attitudes?

  • Changes in racial attitudes and social norms
  • Prejudice is no longer a problem in society
  • Minority group members encourage prejudiced behavior
  • People continue to learn prejudiced beliefs through socialization (correct)

    • What are contemporary prejudices based on?

    <p>Genuine change in social norms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are implicit prejudices?

    <p>Prejudices that are difficult to control</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between implicit prejudices and explicit prejudices?

    <p>Implicit prejudices can be assessed through self-report</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the characteristics of modern-symbolic prejudice?

    <p>Belief that any remaining racial differences in outcomes result from lack of motivation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the two incompatible sets of values that people hold?

    <p>Implicit prejudice and genuine belief in American ideals</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the situational factors that determine behavior in aversive prejudice?

    <p>Discrimination in obvious situations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What percentage of White Americans were opposed to living in a fully integrated neighborhood according to a 2010 survey?

    <p>20%</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a behavior that White people are less likely to engage in when it can be justified on race-neutral grounds?

    <p>Helping behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which factor is NOT a psychological basis of modern-symbolic prejudice?

    <p>High outcome-based egalitarianism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between aversive prejudice and modern-symbolic prejudice?

    <p>Aversive prejudice rejects traditional racialized beliefs, while modern-symbolic prejudice supports them</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do people with aversive prejudice experience when interracial interaction is unavoidable?

    <p>Anxiety and discomfort</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three psychological underpinnings of aversive prejudice?

    <p>Categorization, control, and positive outcomes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main reason for ambivalent attitudes causing conflict?

    <p>Inconsistency between individualist and egalitarian values</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How can negative emotions and threat caused by psychological conflict be reduced?

    <p>By behaving in a way that makes one value seem more important than the other</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is response amplification?

    <p>A behavior toward a stigmatized person that is more extreme than behavior toward a non-stigmatized person</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is being overly positive a problem in prejudice?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

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