PSYO 252 Midterm 2 EXAM QUESTIONS
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racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-prejudice and discrimination based on a
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person's racial background, or institutional and cultural practices that
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promote the domination of one racial group over another
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sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-prejudice and discrimination based on a
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person's gender, or institutional and cultural practices that promote the
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domination of one gender over another
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stereotype - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a belief or association that links a
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whole group of people with certain traits or characteristics
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prejudice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-negative feelings toward persons
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based on their membership in certain groups
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Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-behavior directed against
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persons because of their membership in a particular group
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, modern racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a form of prejudice that
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surfaces in subtle ways when it is safe, socially acceptable, and easy to
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rationalize
aversive racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-racism that concerns the
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ambivalence between fair-minded attitudes and beliefs, on the one
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hand, and unconscious and unrecognized prejudicial feelings and
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beliefs, on the other hand
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implicit racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-racism that operates
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unconsciously and unintentionally | |
ambivalent sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a form of sexism
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characterized by attitudes about women that reflect both negative,
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resentful beliefs and feelings and affectionate and chivalrous but
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potentially patronizing beliefs and feelings
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stigmatized - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-being persistently stereotyped,
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perceived as deviant, and devalued in society because of membership in
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a particular social group or because of a particular characteristic
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stereotype threat - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the experience of concern
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about being evaluated based on negative stereotypes about one's group
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WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-prejudice and discrimination based on a
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person's racial background, or institutional and cultural practices that
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promote the domination of one racial group over another
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sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-prejudice and discrimination based on a
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person's gender, or institutional and cultural practices that promote the
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domination of one gender over another
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stereotype - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a belief or association that links a
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whole group of people with certain traits or characteristics
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prejudice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-negative feelings toward persons
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based on their membership in certain groups
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Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-behavior directed against
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persons because of their membership in a particular group
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, modern racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a form of prejudice that
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surfaces in subtle ways when it is safe, socially acceptable, and easy to
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rationalize
aversive racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-racism that concerns the
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ambivalence between fair-minded attitudes and beliefs, on the one
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hand, and unconscious and unrecognized prejudicial feelings and
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beliefs, on the other hand
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implicit racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-racism that operates
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unconsciously and unintentionally | |
ambivalent sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a form of sexism
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characterized by attitudes about women that reflect both negative,
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resentful beliefs and feelings and affectionate and chivalrous but
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potentially patronizing beliefs and feelings
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stigmatized - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-being persistently stereotyped,
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perceived as deviant, and devalued in society because of membership in
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a particular social group or because of a particular characteristic
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stereotype threat - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the experience of concern
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about being evaluated based on negative stereotypes about one's group
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