Chapter Twelve: Prejudice

Question 1

The first residential schools opened in the ______, and the last one closed in ______. It is estimated that about _____ Indigenous children were removed from their homes and forced to attend Residentials schools, and _______ of them died in residential schools.

Answer 1

• 1880’s
• 1996
• 150,000
• 4,200

Question 2

Prejudice is an _______.

Answer 2

Attitude

Question 3

TRUE or FALSE: Prejudice involves only negative affects

Answer 3

FALSE: It can involve a positive or negative affect (eg. you could be prejudiced against or in favour of Torontonians, thinking they are either stuck up or sophisticated). However, people usually use the term prejudice with the negative affect

Question 4

Is multiculturalism a good idea?

Answer 4

• Studies show that it is beneficial to those who come to Canada, for they are able to retain a sense of their own cultural identity as well as develop an identity as Canadians
• In one study though, promoting multiculturalism to high-prejudice individuals resulted in less warmth and may find the differences threatening

Question 5

______ and ______ is a major focal point for prejudice attitudes.

Answer 5

• race
• ethnicity

Question 6

Do Indigenous folks believe racism is increasing or decreasing?

Answer 6

Increasing

Question 7

What does the research show when it comes to heterosexual student’s views of homosexuals?

Answer 7

They tend to not directly express prejudice towards gay people, but they do report having ambivalent attitudes (mixed feelings or feeling torn)

Question 8

Is there Prejudice against those who speak out against anti-gay prejudice? Explain.

Answer 8

Yes. Research shows that men who confront anti-gay prejudice are perceived as being gay themselves (even though they say they’re straight), are disliked, and are labeled as “complainers”.

Question 9

Who experiences the greatest prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 9

members of visible minorities

Question 10

What happens when a stereotype is formed?

Answer 10

It is resistant to change on the basis of new information

Question 11

Stereotypes are most likely to be held for ______ _______

Answer 11

social groups (race, thenicity)

Question 12

TRUE or FALSE: Research shows that Canadians and Americans have very similar personalities

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

What types of things can be stereotyped?

Answer 13

• nationality
• profession
• hobbies
• different ways of addressing people

Question 14

What does research show when it comes to stereotypes and the way of addressing people?

Answer 14

Those who use Ms. instead of Miss. or Mrs. are rated negatively; more competitive, more independent, and less warm and nurturing

Question 15

What is Gordon Allport’s take on stereotypes?

Answer 15

• says it’s the “law of least effort”
• world is too complicated, so we maximize our cognitive time and energy by developing accurate attitudes on some topics and sketchy beliefs for others
• due to limited processing information capacity, it makes sense that we’d take shortcuts and adopt Heuristics to better make sense of the world

Question 16

Where does stereotype content come from?

Answer 16

• the traits or characteristics of a group that other people are most likely to talk about are the traits that become part of the stereotype of that group
• the more these traits are talked about the more likely they will stick

Question 17

Positive traits are more likely to become part of the stereotype for the ________ groups in society, while negative traits are more likely to become part of the stereotype for the _______ groups in society.

Answer 17

• largest
• smallest

Question 18

When it comes to stereotypes, are positive traits or negative traits more likely to persist over time?

Answer 18

negative traits