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

    What is shooter bias an example of?

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

    What is the justification suppression hypothesis?

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

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