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Question 1 3 / 3 pts Jordan is a student who has just begun taking courses at a nearby college

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Question 1

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Jordan is a student who has just begun taking courses at a nearby college. Because of Jordan’s limited interaction with people from diverse cultural backgrounds, he hesitates to venture too far out of his comfort zone. Specifically, he shies away from social gatherings and jobs where he anticipates meeting people that do not look or talk like him. Consequently, he has missed out on a number of opportunities to make new friends and expand his social network. Jordan’s experiences illustrate which of the following?

  

personal barriers

   

social barriers

   

both personal and social barriers

   

neither personal nor social barriers

 

 

Question 2

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When we perceive what we want to perceive, this is called

  

ethnocentrism

   

stereotyping

   

selective perception

   

perceptual vulnerability

 

 

Question 3

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An unverified and oversimplified generalization about an entire group of people is called

  

discrimination

   

a stereotype

   

ethnocentrism

   

groupthink

   

an “ism”

 

 

Question 4

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Joe is a college student majoring in business. Because he is extremely good-looking, people who do not even know him assume he is sociable, sensitive, and poised. This is an example of the

  

nonprejudiced discriminator

   

nonprejudiced nondiscriminatory

   

attractiveness stereotype

   

pyramiding effect

   

scapegoating

 

 

Question 5

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In a well-known experiment conducted in the 1960’s, Jane Elliott sought to teach her third grade students in a rural town in Iowa about the dynamics of prejudice. She did this by dividing her students according to

  

their grades on tests

   

the color of their skin

   

their parents’ income

   

their eye color

 

 

Question 6

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When the economy took a turn for the worse, unemployed workers in a small town outside of Atlanta were both angry and frustrated. Unable to strike out at the real cause of their predicament, they unfairly blamed local immigrants for the fact that they did not have a job.

This is an example of

  

the pyramiding effect

   

stereotype vulnerability

   

scapegoating

   

ethnocentrism

 

 

Question 7

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The ability to influence and control others is the definition of

  

prestige

   

scapegoat

   

power

   

xenophobia

   

stereotype vulnerability

 

 

Question 8

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An employer feels negatively toward employing older people. Nevertheless, he hires older people because of equal opportunity laws. This is an example of

  

an unprejudiced discriminator

   

an unprejudiced nondiscriminator

   

a prejudiced nondiscriminator

   

a prejudiced discriminator

 

 

Question 9

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Roberto, a manager of a small firm that sells sports equipment, assumes that people with disabilities are more likely to miss work. Therefore, he avoids hiring individuals who appear disabled. Roberto is an example of

  

an unprejudiced discriminator

   

an unprejudiced nondiscriminator

   

a prejudiced nondiscriminator

   

a prejudiced discriminator

 

 

Question 10

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The cumulative impact of encounters with prejudice, discrimination, and  ethnocentrism is referred to as the

  

synergystic effect

   

pyramiding effect

   

residual influence

   

progressive influence