_____ is the “tendency to consider one’s own group, usually national or ethnic, superior to other groups using one’s own group or groups as the frame of reference against which other groups are judged”

A. A logical fallacy
B. Ethnocentrism
C. An attribution bias
D. Internal validation


ANS: B
PG: 104–105
Feedback: The "tendency to consider one's own group, usually national or ethnic, superior to other groups
using one's own group or groups as the frame of reference against which other groups are judged"
(Wolman, 1973, p. 129) is called ethnocentrism. Humans absorb and internalize the values and attitudes,
and discriminatory reactions common in our cultures

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