Chapters 9 & 10 Flashcards
Which of the following is an example of benevolent sexism?
Women have a superior moral sensibility
Women are less skilled in mathematics than men
Women are more emotional than men
Once a man commits she puts him on a tight leash
Women have a superior moral sensibility
Mr. Wong a high school teacher tells his class that he thinks boys tend to be less anxious and thus make better speeches than girls do. The girls in his class become apprehensive when preparing and giving speeches in his class. The girls are experiencing
A stereotype threat
Of the following which is the best example of instrumental aggression?
An angry football player tackles a quarterback after he attempts a long pass.
A jealous wife finds her husband with another woman and shoots them both.
A group of mercenaries hired to kill the dictator of a small country arrange to poison him.
A man smashes his TV set after he cannot get it to work.
A group of mercenaries hired to kill the Dictator of a small country arrange to poison him
Repeatedly playing violent video games does not increase aggressive thinking.
True or false
False
Instinct theories of aggression would have the most difficult accounting for
Wide variations of aggressiveness from culture to culture
Cultural attitudes including prejudice are embodied and reinforced in
Schools government and the media
Betty and Tina both third-graders in the same classroom are assigned by their teacher to different groups that would compete in a spelling bee. Betty and Tina each believe that their own group is composed of the better spellers. The girls beliefs best illustrate
And in group bias
Sally believes that all psychology majors are nosy. When she meets Jonathan she is surprised because although he is a psychology major he respects her privacy and doesn’t push her to share things if she doesn’t want to. What will likely happen to Sally’s stereotype of psychology majors?
She will say that Jonathan is the exception to the rule
Frustration grows when
We are completely blocked in attaining our goal
Current motivational approaches to aggression suggests that frustration
Triggers anger which can generate aggression in some situations
In a revision of the frustration aggression theory Berkowitz emphasized the importance of
Anger, an emotional readiness to aggress
As part of therapy, a clinical psychologist encourages her patients to instill a punching bag in their homes to release hostility. The therapist apparently believes in
The catharsis hypothesis
Arthur did not work very hard on his last class essay assignment, so he was relieved at first to find that he had gotten a C. But when he learned that most of his classmates had gotten B’s in A’s he felt unhappy and angry about his grade. Arthur’s experience is best explained in terms of
The relative deprivation principle
A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people is called a
Stereotype
All of the following statements are social sources of prejudice except
Social institutions and policies don’t support prejudice
