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What is stereotyping a component of in the context of prejudice?

  • Discrimination
  • Affective component
  • Cognitive component (correct)
  • Behavioural component

What is discrimination in the context of prejudice?

  • A negative attitude towards a social group
  • A belief about a group's characteristics
  • Behaviour directed toward a person based on their group membership (correct)
  • A hostile or negative feeling towards a group

According to Allport, what is the most severe level of discrimination?

  • Avoidance
  • Physical attack
  • Extermination (correct)
  • Antilocution

What is the affective component of prejudice?

<p>A hostile or negative feeling (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of antilocution, according to Allport's levels of discrimination?

<p>Verbal prejudice or propaganda (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why does the author think many people may already be participating in discrimination?

<p>Because they are born into a family that already participates in antilocution (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is shooter bias an example of?

<p>Implicit bias (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the justification suppression hypothesis?

<p>The tendency to suppress implicit biases in public (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for brief and everyday slights, insults, and denigrating messages sent to individuals based on social identity?

<p>Microaggressions (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the tendency for people to assume that differences between groups are greater than they actually are?

<p>Categorization (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the idea that places with high population density have less helpful people due to cognitive overload?

<p>Urban overload hypothesis (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the phenomenon where privately everyone knows something is wrong, but publicly nobody addresses it?

<p>Pluralistic ignorance (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers
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