Identify the five causes of prejudice discussed in the text, and discuss them in detail. How can prejudice be combatted?
What will be an ideal response?
The five main factors are dissimilarity and social distance, economic competition, scapegoating, conformity to social norms, and media stereotypes. To combat prejudice, new role models, equal status contact, and legislation have all proven to be effective.
You might also like to view...
People with a(n) ____ personality are more likely to hold conventional values, respect authority figures, and punish others who defy authority
a. authoritative b. permissive c. rigid d. authoritarian
Visual distance and depth cues that require the use of both eyes are called ______ cues
a. monocular c. binaural b. binocular d. dichromatic
After an extensive review of research on gender differences, Eagly (1995) concluded that
A) people have a reasonably good feel for which differences are large and which are small. B) people don't really know what the true differences are. C) people try follow norms governing gender-based behavior, but are not very good at it. D) there really are no gender differences in behavior.
In normal reading, saccades occupy about ________ percent of the total time
A) 1 B) 50 C) 28 D) 20 E) 10