Multicultural Psychology Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Multicultural Psychology explores the ways in which culture influences human behavior, cognition, and emotion, with a focus on understanding the psychological experiences of individuals from diverse backgrounds. The course examines concepts such as identity development, acculturation, prejudice, and discrimination, as well as the role of culture in shaping mental health and interpersonal relationships. Students will critically analyze research and theories related to multicultural competence and gain practical strategies for fostering inclusivity and cultural awareness in various psychological settings.
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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) Discriminating against people based on their obese status is illegal.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Body size is an important dimension of diversity because
A)Body size influences self-image
B)Prejudice against obese people is widespread
C)Obesity is associated with loss of social status
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q4) Pride in our own groups generally is associated with wanting to create favorable distinctions with other groups.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Categorization and Stereotyping: Cognitive Processes
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Q1) We are most likely to categorize ____.
A)A happy outgroup face.
B)A threatening outgroup face.
C)A happy ingroup face.
D)A threatening ingroup face.
Answer: B
Q2) Thinking that "they're all the same" about outgroup members reflects the:
A)Ultimate attribution error
B)Subtyping
C)Outgroup homogeneity effect
D)None of the above
Answer: C
Q3) A stereotype is a set of beliefs about the members of a social group.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) All stereotypes are negative.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Stereotypes Expressed: Social Processes That
Shape Diversity
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Q1) What happened when males had a get-aquainted phone conversation with a female partner they believed was either attractive or unattractive?
A)The men who conversed with the "attractive" partner were more sociable than those who conversed with an "unattractive" partner.
B)The partners who were believed to be attractive were rated as warmer than "unattractive" partners.
C)Males attractiveness stereotypes leaked into their phone conversation.
D)All of the above.
Answer: D
Q2) According to research,who is least vulnerable to the self-fulfilling prophecy in math classes?
A)Girls
B)Low income/socioeconomic status students of any race
C)White students
D)African-American students
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Prejudice: Evaluating Social Difference
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Q1) According to the U.S.Bureau of Justice,Black males are incarcerated at a rate that is ____ White males.
A)The same as
B)2 times higher than C)4 times higher than
D)Over 6 times higher than
Q2) Explain how secondary prejudice works.
Q3) What factors help explain the difference between Black and White students on standardized tests?
A)White students are genetically better prepared for school achievement than Blacks.
B)White students' families are generally better-educated.
C)More money per student)is spent on educating White than Black students.
D)B and C
E)All of the above
Q4) Income differences between White and Black families help justify Whites' stereotype of Blacks as lazy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the main terror management theory hypothesis regarding prejudice?
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Chapter 6: Understanding Gender Stereotypes and Sexism
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Q1) Discuss three reasons why women endorse benevolent sexist attitudes?
Q2) What are self-construals? How are men's or women's self-construals shaped by gender stereotypes?
Q3) Stay-at-home dads,who take on the child-rearing role,develop nurturance that equals stay-at-home moms.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is gender bias? How is it expressed in the workplace?
Q5) Explain how gender differences arise out of men and women occupying different roles in society.
Q6) Title IX has established gender equity in college sports,according to recent investigative reports.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Which characteristic best fits the cultural stereotype of men?
A)Sociable
B)Independent
C)Nurturant
D)Helpful
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Chapter 7: Understanding Sex Stereotypes and Heterosexism
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Q1) Sexual discrimination at the workplace can take the form of:
A)social distancing.
B)tension and hostility between LGBT individuals and their coworkers and managers.
C)loss of opportunity.
D)all of these.
Q2) There is no scientific basis for gaydar at all.
A)True
B)False
Q3) LGBTQA includes
A)people who identify as in-between sexual minority categories.
B)people whose sexual identify is still in formation.
C)people who are allies with sexual minorities.
D)all of these.
Q4) What is the difference between sexual stigma and sexual prejudice?
Q5) Minority stress only affects racial or ethnic minorities.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) Describe some of the ways sexual discrimination occurs,and the costs and benefits of concealing one's sexual minority status to avoid discrimination.
Chapter 8: Understanding Obesity Stereotypes and Weightism
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Q1) Describe how weight loss affects weightism.
Q2) 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.
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) Negative evaluations of obese people has been demonstrated in which of the following groups of health professionals?
A)physicians
B)nurses
C)dieticians
D)all 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) Among older characters on television,who is portrayed more negatively?
A)older men
B)older women
C)Both groups are portrayed equally negatively.
Q2) Negative age-related attitudes are just as high,or higher,in older people than in younger people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Elderspeak is always perceived negatively by older age persons.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe elderspeak.
Q5) Both positive and negative old age stereotypic expectations can be self-fulfilling.
A)True
B)False
Q6) 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
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Chapter 10: Social Stigma: the Experience of Prejudice
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Q1) Lung cancer and HIV/AIDS are two illness that differ in:
A)peril.
B)perceived controllability.
C)visibility.
Q2) Describe the basic idea of stereotype threat and give an example.
Q3) People with invisible stigmas are free of social difficulties.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When Goffman states that stigmatized people have a "spoiled identity," to what psychological processes is he referring?
Q5) What are the most common consequences of stereotype threat?
A)stereotyped students work harder
B)stereotyped students feel anxiety
C)stereotyped students devalue achievement
D)both B and C
E)all of these
Q6) What are some of the characteristics of mental illness stigma?
Q7) Discuss two ways that stereotype threat undermines academic performance.
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Q8) What is the difference between one's actual and virtual identities?
Q9) How is it stressful to have the experience of negative stereotypes "in the air?"
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Chapter 11: Coping With Social Stigma
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Q1) How does stigma can influence physical well-being?
Q2) What is covering,and how can covering become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Q3) The use of strategies to cope with the consequences of stigma is called:
A)stigma management.
B)stigma consciousness.
C)stereotype threat.
D)master status attribute.
Q4) What are the consequences of having a self that is dominated by a "master status attribute?"
Q5) Acceptance and commitment therapy encourages stigmatized people to:
A)avoid people who stereotype them.
B)engage and respond to others' prejudice.
C)disengage from others' stereotyping.
D)escape from situations where they are stereotyped.
Q6) Stigmatizable people have a:
A)visible flaw.
B)invisible flaw.
C)controllable flaw.
D)uncontrollable flaw.
Q7) Describe one stigma-management strategy for gaining social acceptance.
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Chapter 12: Responding to Social Inequality: Behavioral and Cognitive
Interventions for Reducing Prejudice
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Q1) Which condition is necessary for the contact hypothesis to reduce intergroup anxiety?
A)Contact must be with a lower-status person.
B)Contact must involve working toward a common goal.
C)Contact must involve multiple members of the outgroup.
D)Contact must be direct.
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) The contact hypothesis states that contact with outgroup members heightens anxiety.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Efforts to monitor and suppress one's automatic prejudices is called:
A)Stereotype inhibition
B)Stereotype threat
C)Self-regulation
D)Stereotype rebound
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Q5) Explain how cross-categorization reduces prejudice.
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