Week Six/Seven

Question 1

Social Identity Theory

Answer 1

We make sense of who we are and the world around us through a threefold process
1. Social Categorization
2. Social identification
3. Social comparison

Question 2

The Power of Exposure

Answer 2

The superficial exposure to strangers increases their salience, activating exclusion

Question 3

True or False, the information treatment in the Adida et al. (2018) paper, in which individuals were shown a graph showing how many Syrian refugees the US had committed to resettling compared to Canada, France, and Germany, had no significant effect on survey-takers attitudes or behaviors toward refugees.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Immigrants to France who were assigned French language training as part of the Contrat d’Accueil et d’Intégration were more likely

Answer 4

To acquire better navigational skills through the classes by learning things from their teacher and colleagues, such as how to look for jobs online, how to get a driver’s license, etc.

Question 5

True or False: the effect of a choose-your-own-adventure video game on reducing prejudice against the Roma in Hungary (Simonovits et al. 2018) disappeared after a month

Answer 5

False

Question 6

The Hortefeux Effect

Answer 6

The former interior of France made problematic comments about Muslims, systematically the exclusion of Muslims