Psychology 4130: Scapegoat Theory and Prejudice
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What is the term for attributing outgroup members' positive behavior to external factors, while attributing negative behavior to their dispositions?

  • Explaining away (correct)
  • Just-world thinking
  • Distinctiveness illusion
  • Outgroup homogeneity effect
  • What is the concept that people believe the world is just and that people get what they deserve?

  • Subtyping
  • Just-world thinking (correct)
  • Outgroup homogeneity effect
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy
  • What is the Old Testament story of Job an illustration of?

  • Just-world thinking (correct)
  • Outgroup homogeneity effect
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy
  • Subgrouping
  • What is the term for when people form a new stereotype about a subset of a group to accommodate individuals who deviate from their original stereotype?

    <p>Subgrouping</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for when people perceive outgroup members as being more homogeneous than they really are?

    <p>Outgroup homogeneity effect</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for when people perceive ingroup members as being more diverse than they really are, and outgroup members as being more homogeneous than they really are?

    <p>Distinctiveness illusion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for when people's attitudes coincide with the social hierarchy, not only as a rationalization for it but also because discrimination affects its victims?

    <p>Self-fulfilling prophecy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many possible effects of victimization did Allport catalogue in 'The Nature of Prejudice'?

    <p>15</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for when people think of individuals who deviate from their stereotype as 'exceptions to the rule'?

    <p>Subtyping</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What guides our attention and our memories according to the text?

    <p>Prejudgments</p> Signup and view all the answers

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