D357- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Ableism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ideas, practices, institutions, and social relations that
presume able-bodiedness and marginalize, exclude, or make people with disabilities invisible.
Access discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When people are denied employment
opportunities, or 'access' to jobs, based on their race, sex, age, or other factors not related to
productivity.
Adverse impact - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When an apparently neutral, evenly applied job
policy or employment practice has a negative effect on the employment of people belonging
to protected classes.
Age stereotypes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Judgments about individual employees based
upon their age rather than on their actual knowledge, skills, or abilities.
Ageism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination directed at a
person because of their age or membership in a certain age group.
Agnostic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅One who lacks knowledge of or a certainty about a
divine being.
Allies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Dominant group members and others not being uniquely
oppressed in a particular circumstance who work to end oppression through their support of
and advocacy for those who are oppressed.
Ambivalent sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The simultaneous holding of both hostile
and 'benevolent' sexist beliefs about women.
Amerasian - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A child born of American servicemen and Asian
women.
, Associational discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Discrimination of one individual
on the basis of their relationship or association with another individual.
Atheist - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅One who denies the existence of a divine being.
Attribution errors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Errors in estimating the influence of external
factors and internal errors when evaluating the behavior of in-group and out-group members.
Aversive racism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The holding of egalitarian values and beliefs
while still possessing negative feelings and beliefs about racial issues and minority group
members.
Benevolent sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A set of interrelated attitudes toward women
that are sexist while perceived as positive by the attitude holder.
Brain drain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When well-educated members of a country leave to
seek greater opportunities and income in other countries.
Bridge employment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The employment of retired older workers
who continue working for the same or other companies, in full or part-time positions, for a
period of time.
Cisgender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Individuals whose gender identity is congruent with
what is traditionally expected based on their assigned gender at birth.
Classism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Negative attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors directed
toward those with less power and in a lower position in a hierarchical social structure.
Co-ethnic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅From the same race or ethnic group.
Colorism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A process that privileges light over dark-skinned
people of color in areas such as income, education, housing, and the marriage market.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Ableism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ideas, practices, institutions, and social relations that
presume able-bodiedness and marginalize, exclude, or make people with disabilities invisible.
Access discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When people are denied employment
opportunities, or 'access' to jobs, based on their race, sex, age, or other factors not related to
productivity.
Adverse impact - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When an apparently neutral, evenly applied job
policy or employment practice has a negative effect on the employment of people belonging
to protected classes.
Age stereotypes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Judgments about individual employees based
upon their age rather than on their actual knowledge, skills, or abilities.
Ageism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination directed at a
person because of their age or membership in a certain age group.
Agnostic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅One who lacks knowledge of or a certainty about a
divine being.
Allies - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Dominant group members and others not being uniquely
oppressed in a particular circumstance who work to end oppression through their support of
and advocacy for those who are oppressed.
Ambivalent sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The simultaneous holding of both hostile
and 'benevolent' sexist beliefs about women.
Amerasian - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A child born of American servicemen and Asian
women.
, Associational discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Discrimination of one individual
on the basis of their relationship or association with another individual.
Atheist - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅One who denies the existence of a divine being.
Attribution errors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Errors in estimating the influence of external
factors and internal errors when evaluating the behavior of in-group and out-group members.
Aversive racism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The holding of egalitarian values and beliefs
while still possessing negative feelings and beliefs about racial issues and minority group
members.
Benevolent sexism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A set of interrelated attitudes toward women
that are sexist while perceived as positive by the attitude holder.
Brain drain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When well-educated members of a country leave to
seek greater opportunities and income in other countries.
Bridge employment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The employment of retired older workers
who continue working for the same or other companies, in full or part-time positions, for a
period of time.
Cisgender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Individuals whose gender identity is congruent with
what is traditionally expected based on their assigned gender at birth.
Classism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Negative attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors directed
toward those with less power and in a lower position in a hierarchical social structure.
Co-ethnic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅From the same race or ethnic group.
Colorism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A process that privileges light over dark-skinned
people of color in areas such as income, education, housing, and the marriage market.
