Diversity in Education Test Questions
Course Introduction
Diversity in Education explores the multifaceted dimensions of diversity as they relate to educational settings, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, language, and ability. The course provides students with an understanding of how diverse backgrounds influence learning experiences and outcomes, emphasizing inclusive practices and culturally responsive pedagogy. Through critical analysis, reflection, and case studies, students develop awareness of biases and barriers in education, as well as strategies for creating equitable learning environments that support all students.
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Understanding the Psychology of Diversity 3rd Edition by B. Evan Blaine
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Psychology of Diversity
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Q1) Our beliefs about gay or lesbian individuals don't affect our behavior toward them.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q2) In the next 20 years,healthcare costs will be driven most by changes in which aspect of diversity?
A)Race/ethnicity
B)Sexual orientation
C)Religion
D)Age Answer: D
Q3) Which diversity ideology ignores group boundaries and social identities?
A)Melting pot
B)Multiculturalism
C)Color-blindness
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Categorization and Stereotyping: Cognitive Processes
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Q1) Where do stereotypes come from?
A)Personal exposure to members of that group.
B)Distinctive members of a group.
C)Socialization agents
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q2) According to the principle of hypodescent,which person would be categorized as Black?
A)Someone with 2 Black parents
B)Someone with 1 Black and 1 White parent
C)Someone with 1 Black and 3 White grandparents
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Social groups that we are not members of are called:
A)Ingroups
B)Outgroups
C)Reference groups
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Stereotypes Expressed: Social Processes That
Shape Diversity
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Q1) Teachers' negative expectations are more likely to form a self-fulfilling prophecy than their positive expectations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Rosenthal and Jacobson 1968)found that teachers' expectations for their student's ability produced the expected academic performance.This phenomenon is called:
A)Self-fulfilling prophecy
B)Perceptual bias
C)Fundamental attribution error
D)Stereotypic bias
Answer: A
Q3) Madon and her colleagues 1998)found that teachers' judgments of boys and girls classroom _____ were based on accurate assessments of their abilities,but their judgments of their _____ reflected gender stereotypes.
A)Performance;effort
B)Effort;performance
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Prejudice: Evaluating Social Difference
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Q1) Describe 2 forms of modern prejudice,and note the role of ambivalence in each.
Q2) Whites' negative stereotypes of Hispanics are improving at a faster rate than their negative stereotypes of Blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How has Whites' cultural stereotype of Blacks changed over the decades from the pre-civil rights era to today?
Q4) The idea that prejudice is more likely to be expressed when it can be made to ourselves or others)more reasonable reflects:
A)The authoritarian personality
B)The suppression-justification model
C)Social dominance orientation
D)Personal social beliefs
Q5) Explain the stereotype content model and its dimensions.
Q6) Describe backlash and why it occurs.
Q7) Based on the stereotype content model,characterize the content of stereotypes of Blacks,Hispanics,Asians and Jews.
Q8) What is the stereotype people hold of an affirmative action recipient?
Q9) Define racism,and distinguish between racist actions and racism.
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Chapter 6: Understanding Gender Stereotypes and Sexism
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Q1) Which form of sexism regards women as sexual objects and believes they are interested in controlling men?
A)Modern sexism
B)Hostile sexism
C)Benevolent sexism
D)All of the above
Q2) How is sex-based social categorization similar to race-based social cateogization?
A)Both kinds of categorization are made in less than a second.
B)Both kinds of categorization are rooted in different sets of physical characteristics.
C)Both kinds of categorization use physical differences to represent inner qualities.
D)All of the above.
Q3) What do we learn about the presumed differences between men and women from TV advertisements? Give some examples and how those examples reflect gender stereotypes.
Q4) People with interdependent self-construals tend to preserve their autonomy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Understanding Sex Stereotypes and Heterosexism
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Q1) Explain the components of sexual orientation and their interdependence.
Q2) The best estimates indicate that the percentage of LGBT individuals in the American population is around:
A)10%.
B)3.5%.
C)<1%.
Q3) The experience of society's disapproval of nonheterosexual identities,behavior,and communities is:
A)sexual stigma.
B)sexual prejudice.
C)homophobia.
D)gaydar.
Q4) Apart from age,one of the strongest predictors of sexual prejudice is right-wing authoritarianism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Twin studies show that sexual orientation has a substantial inherited component.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) What erroneous)beliefs contribute to the stereotype of gay men?
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Chapter 8: Understanding Obesity Stereotypes and Weightism
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Q1) Bessenoff and Sherman 2000)found that participants' distancing themselves from an obese interaction partner was best predicted by:
A)self-reported obesity prejudice.
B)automatic obesity prejudice.
C)both A and B.
D)neither A nor B.
Q2) White people tend to view obesity in more positive terms than do Black people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Permanent weight loss is rare,suggesting that:
A)obese people don't try hard enough to lose weight.
B)obese peoples' eating habits undercut weight loss efforts.
C)weight is not as controllable as most people believe.
D)none of these.
Q4) Compared with Black and Hispanic women,White women:
A)are more tolerant toward obesity.
B)have body dissatisfaction at lower weights.
C)have less pressure to be thin.
D)none of these.
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Q5) Discuss how the obesity pay gap may occur even if employers are not prejudiced.
Chapter 9: Understanding Age Stereotypes and Ageism
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Q1) Describe the ambivalence in the content of old age stereotypes.
Q2) The subtype of older people that is most likely to prompt admiration is:
A)shrew/curmudgeon.
B)Golden Ager.
C)recluse.
D)impaired.
Q3) How old you are and how old you feel distinguish between one's
A)subjective and chronological age
B)chronological and subjective age
C)actual and stereotypical age
Q4) According to research,we are anxious around older people because:
A)they remind us of our eventual fate.
B)they are often sick.
C)they are dependent on us.
D)all of these.
Q5) Successful aging involves:
A)freedom from disability.
B)good cognitive functioning.
C)being productive.
D)all of these.
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Chapter 10: Social Stigma: the Experience of Prejudice
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Q1) How is it stressful to have the experience of negative stereotypes "in the air?"
Q2) Does having multiple stigmatized identities lead to more negative outcomes than having a single stigmatized identity? Discuss.
Q3) In a study of well-being among AIDS victims,those with the most anxiety and depression were those who:
A)revealed their illness to a few friends.
B)concealed their illness.
C)revealing or concealing was unrelated to depression.
Q4) Negative stereotypes undermine performance by reducing memory capacity.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Being "found out" by others as having a disliked or negatively stereotyped characteristic is most consistent with which conceptualization of stigma?
A)Stigma is situationally determined.
B)Stigma is a mismatch of identities.
C)Stigma is an attribute-stereotype connection.
D)Stigma is being the object of ambivalence.
Q6) Social stigma can be conceptualized in several complementary ways-describe them.
Q7) Discuss two ways that stereotype threat undermines academic performance.
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Chapter 11: Coping With Social Stigma
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Q1) Define a master status attribute.
Q2) What are the consequences of having a self that is dominated by a "master status attribute?"
Q3) Self-promotion attempts usually fail because the person is too focused on their stigma.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Physically disabled people might ______ to protect their self-esteem.
A)compare themselves with members of their own group
B)discount the importance of domains requiring athletic ability
C)attribute others' negative views of their abilities to prejudice
D)all of these
Q5) How does acceptance and commitment therapy approach the treatment of depression,anxiety,and other unhealthy responses to others' stereotyping and prejudice?
Q6) Mental health has no relationship to physical health.
A)True
B)False
Q7) What is covering,and how can covering become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Q8) How does being stigmatized affect one's self-esteem?
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Chapter 12: Responding to Social Inequality: Behavioral and
Cognitive Interventions for Reducing Prejudice
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Q1) How does intergroup contact lessen our reliance on social categories and stereotypes?
Q2) Which works better to reducing your own automatic prejudice?
A)Refuting your own stereotypic beliefs.
B)Affirming counterstereotypic beliefs.
C)Both work equally well.
Q3) Personal contact with outgroup members makes us:
A)More informed of their life circumstances
B)More threatened by them
C)Less judgmental of them
D)A and C
E)All of the above
Q4) How are the contact hypothesis and cross-categorization complementary prejudice-reduction interventions?
Q5) What is the difference between cognitive and emotional empathy?
Q6) What is the contact hypothesis?
Q7) Intergroup contact with members of one group improves attitudes towards members of other outgroups too.
A)True
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