Exam 3 (KAHOOT VERSION) Flashcards
Which 4 concepts help is understand why stereotypes are maintained?
Discounting principle,awareness, self- fulfilling prophesy
Exportations and behaviors that create actions/ reactions in others and confirm a person’s original expectation is called?
Self- fulfilling prophesy
Holding a low standard for proving things we believe and a high standard to prove things we don’t believe is called:
Burdon of proof
When people minimize evidence that is inconsistent with what they believe-we refer to that as what?
Discounting principle
When people try to look for particular information- they are usually able to find it. This idea was described as what?
Selective observation / awareness
What term refers to attitudes or beliefs about people based on a person’s group membership?
Prejudice
What term refers to oversimplified or exaggerated generalizations about a category of individuals?
Stereotypes
True or false: Prejudices can be learned from being exposed to explicit and direct claims about others;
True
True or false: the selective pairing of traits with observations teaches the listener the prejudices of the speaker
True
What incident prompted the person to make the movie “A chink in the armor”?
Something he overheard in the library
Which of the following stereotypes were tested in the video”A chink in the armor”?
Driving skills, martial arts skills, math skills, translation skills.
In the video, what was the average % score on the math test?
56
Anecdotal was defined in class as…..
Not necessarily reliable because its based on personal accounts
A video clip with Sendhil Mullainathan was shown as an example of:
Scientific information
A video clip with Jose Zamora was shown as an example of:
Anecdotal information
The term gender refers to what?
Non biological things associated with sex
The term medical/ scientific term for people who experience an incongruence between their sex and gender:
Gender dysphoria
In class you learned that the number of races that were initially proposed was:
3
For every level of —-, the—– for females is lower than for males
Education; median income
In class you learned that females report enjoyment of math an science ——– to males until the 10th grade
Equal
By the 12th grade females report significantly ——- enjoyment of math and science
Less
Using DNA scientist have looked at race in humans and have concluded:
There is only one race
Why do females typically have a lifetime earnings of about 70-78% of what a male earns?
- Differences in years of full time employment
- occupational choices
- actual pay differences
——- refers to the process by which individuals learn culturally approved expectations/behaviors for males and females
Gender socialization
Terms used to signify that a person does not see themselves fitting into a dichotomous conception of gender:
Queer
