Which process involves separating the minority population from the majority?
Correct answer B. Segregation
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What is attributing the same characteristics to a whole group without allowing for individual differences called?
Correct answer A. Stereotyping
According to Gordon Allport’s contact theory, what happens when groups meet?
Correct answer C. Equal status between groups leads to reduced competition
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Under what conditions does discrimination occur?
Correct answer B. With or without accompanying prejudice
Which of the following was NOT a means of upward mobility for minorities?
Correct answer A. A social caste system
To what is the difference in attitudes between white and African Americans related?
Correct answer A. Age
Why have Latino neighbourhoods prospered?
Correct answer B. Latinos have a strong sense of community
What did the study of male identical twins, one accidentally castrated during circumcision and raised as a girl until puberty, reveal?
Correct answer B. The castrated male still acted like a tomboy
What is the central claim of ageism?
Correct answer B. The young are superior to the old
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Which statement about males is correct?
Correct answer A. Are more prone to aggressiveness than females
What did Margaret Mead’s work in New Guinea show?
Correct answer A. Sex role behaviour is conditioned differently in different cultures
What may explain women’s subordinate position in decision making?
Correct answer D. The instrumental role assumed by males
According to cognitive development theory, how do children learn gender roles?
Correct answer D. Which stage of cognitive development they have reached
On what is gender assignment based?
Correct answer A. A combination of biology and socialization
Feminist theory has drawn many of its ideas from which source?
Correct answer D. Conflict and Marxist theories
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What does disengagement refer to?
Correct answer D. Aged persons abandoning their regular roles so that younger people may assume them
In which area has discrimination against older people been especially obvious?
Correct answer C. Employment
Why are the elderly regarded as a minority?
Correct answer D. Lack power
Which people are set apart for differential treatment?
Correct answer B. BOTH the disabled and those with same-sex preferences
What is the experience of losing, or expecting to lose, someone close called?
Correct answer B. Bereavement