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What is the difference between cognitive and affective prejudice?

A) Affective is what people like or dislike, while cognitive is how people are inclined to behave
B) Cognitive is what people like or dislike, while affective is what people believe is true
C) Affective is what people like or dislike, while cognitive is what people believe is true
D) Cognitive is what people like or dislike, while affective is how people are inclined to behave

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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When people's ability to engage in complex thinking or thoughtful reflection is increased,people tend to fall back on stereotypes.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following are the three forms of prejudice mentioned in the text?

All stereotypes are negative or derogatory.

People with authoritarian personalities have unusually strong personality needs for scapegoating and projection.

Prejudiced people tend to be unconcerned about status.

Which of the following is a characteristic of a stereotype?

One's position in society's ranking system as represented particularly by such criteria as income,education,and occupation is called:

In a study by Hartley (1946) respondents were asked about their attitudes concerning a variety of ethnic groups,including "Danireans," "Pirraneans," and "Wallonians." The study found that those people who were antagonistic towards blacks and Jews were also antagonistic toward these other three groups.The catch is that none of the three groups exist! This suggests that causes of prejudice can be found in the characteristics of:

Attitudes and beliefs involving a tendency to prejudge people,usually negatively and usually on the basis of a single personal characteristic,without any objective basis for making such a judgment are called:

White Americans are more likely to be supportive of equal rights for women (of all races)than of equal rights for black (men and women).

Rather than focus on the personality needs of the individual,social scientists who study social learning and conformity as causes of prejudice usually look at:

The tendency to take out one's feelings of frustration and aggression on someone other than the true source of the frustration is called:

Adorno found that prejudice is a generalized attitude.

If someone minimizes,avoids,or denies undesirable characteristics in himself/herself by exaggerating those same characteristics in others,they are engaging in:

The tendency to think of or react to everyone in the same category (ex.black,Chinese,female or gay) in a more or less fixed way,based on the category is called:

Which of the following is true according to social learning theories of prejudice?

How can peer groups get members to conform to norms that may be prejudiced against others? What happens to those who don't conform?

The tendency to view one's own group as the norm and other groups not only as different but also strange and,usually inferior is called:

Persons in lower socioeconomic groups tend to be: