WGU D357 FINAL SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Social class. Answer: a group of people with similar backgrounds,
incomes, and ways of living
◉ Structural, or systemic racism. Answer: the ways in which
societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing
systems, including public policies, institutional practices, cultural
representations, and other norms that work in reinforcing ways to
perpetuate group inequity
◉ Treatment Discrimination. Answer: when people are employed
but are treated differently once employed, receiving fewer job-
related rewards, resources, or opportunities than they should
receive based on job-related criteria
◉ Underemployed. Answer: working at a job for which one is
overqualified, or working part-time when full-time work is desired
◉ Allies. Answer: Dominant group, members, and others, not being
uniquely oppressed in a particular circumstance, who work to end
oppression through their support and advocacy of those who are
oppressed
,◉ Ambivolent sexism. Answer: encompasses both hostile and
benevolent sexism. (Women must be protected)
◉ Attribution error. Answer: errors made in attributing causes for
people's behavior to their membership in a particular group, such as
a racial group
◉ Aversive racism. Answer: simultaneously holding egalitarian
values and negative feelings toward minorities
◉ Benevolent sexism. Answer: acceptance of positive stereotypes of
males and females that leads to unequal treatment and are
perceived as positive by the attitude holder
◉ Descriptive stereotyping. Answer: perceptions about how people
do or will behave, based on their group memberships
◉ Discrimination. Answer: unjustifiable negative behavior toward a
group and its members
◉ Egalitarian. Answer: A person who believes in the equality of all
people
, ◉ Hostile sexism. Answer: The negative element of ambivalent
sexism, which includes the attitudes that women are inferior and
incompetent relative to men.
◉ Internalized oppression. Answer: when a member of an
oppressed group believes and acts out the stereotypes created about
their group
◉ Internalized racism. Answer: acceptance by members of the
stigmatized races of negative messages about their own abilities and
intrinsic worth
◉ Internalized sexism. Answer: When women believe negative
messages about their intrinsic worth and that of other women
◉ New racism. Answer: beliefs that racism no longer exists and that
Blacks (or other racial groups) have attained excessive, unfair gains
through programs such as affirmative action, resulting in
discrimination when opportunity or rationale to do so arises
◉ Prejudice. Answer: A negative attitude toward an entire category
of people, often an ethnic or racial minority.
◉ Prescriptive stereotyping. Answer: perceptions about how people
should behave, based on their group memberships
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Social class. Answer: a group of people with similar backgrounds,
incomes, and ways of living
◉ Structural, or systemic racism. Answer: the ways in which
societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing
systems, including public policies, institutional practices, cultural
representations, and other norms that work in reinforcing ways to
perpetuate group inequity
◉ Treatment Discrimination. Answer: when people are employed
but are treated differently once employed, receiving fewer job-
related rewards, resources, or opportunities than they should
receive based on job-related criteria
◉ Underemployed. Answer: working at a job for which one is
overqualified, or working part-time when full-time work is desired
◉ Allies. Answer: Dominant group, members, and others, not being
uniquely oppressed in a particular circumstance, who work to end
oppression through their support and advocacy of those who are
oppressed
,◉ Ambivolent sexism. Answer: encompasses both hostile and
benevolent sexism. (Women must be protected)
◉ Attribution error. Answer: errors made in attributing causes for
people's behavior to their membership in a particular group, such as
a racial group
◉ Aversive racism. Answer: simultaneously holding egalitarian
values and negative feelings toward minorities
◉ Benevolent sexism. Answer: acceptance of positive stereotypes of
males and females that leads to unequal treatment and are
perceived as positive by the attitude holder
◉ Descriptive stereotyping. Answer: perceptions about how people
do or will behave, based on their group memberships
◉ Discrimination. Answer: unjustifiable negative behavior toward a
group and its members
◉ Egalitarian. Answer: A person who believes in the equality of all
people
, ◉ Hostile sexism. Answer: The negative element of ambivalent
sexism, which includes the attitudes that women are inferior and
incompetent relative to men.
◉ Internalized oppression. Answer: when a member of an
oppressed group believes and acts out the stereotypes created about
their group
◉ Internalized racism. Answer: acceptance by members of the
stigmatized races of negative messages about their own abilities and
intrinsic worth
◉ Internalized sexism. Answer: When women believe negative
messages about their intrinsic worth and that of other women
◉ New racism. Answer: beliefs that racism no longer exists and that
Blacks (or other racial groups) have attained excessive, unfair gains
through programs such as affirmative action, resulting in
discrimination when opportunity or rationale to do so arises
◉ Prejudice. Answer: A negative attitude toward an entire category
of people, often an ethnic or racial minority.
◉ Prescriptive stereotyping. Answer: perceptions about how people
should behave, based on their group memberships
