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Questions and Answers of Positive Psychology

Use the gender belief system model to explain why men, compared with women, are more intolerant of gay men.
Speculate what might happen to the greater acceptance of lesbianism as women gain power and status in your society.
In what ways are attitudes toward lesbians and gays changing internationally? In what ways are they not changing?
Based on your knowledge of ingroups and outgroups, why would gays and lesbians be intolerant of bisexuals?
What factors influence whether a lesbian is likely to disclose her sexual orientation? Would a gay person in your class be likely to come out? Why or why not?
If people in general are more accepting of homosexuality, why do gays and lesbians still experience workplace discrimination?
Distinguish between formal and informal discrimination against gays and lesbians. Give an example of each type.
Imagine you learn that a person in your class is transgender. What could you do to make that person feel more accepted?
Are the individual difference variables that predict transphobia similar to or different from the individual difference variables that predict anti-gay prejudice? Why?
Is there cisgender privilege? Explain your reasoning.
List the common microaggressions experienced by transgender people. Why do you think those microaggressions are more hurtful coming from friends?
Look at social media or news reports of Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner’s transition from male to female. Do you see evidence of the kinds of microaggressions Kevin Nadal described in his research?
What ages delineate the categories “young,” “middle-aged,” and “old?” In what ways are researchers’ and nonresearchers’ definitions similar and different?
What are the advantages of aging? Do you think those advantages are represented in people’s stereotypes about older adults?
Distinguish between primary and secondary aging. Which of these types of aging is associated with successful aging?
Under what circumstances might a younger person’s forgetfulness lead to negative evaluations?
How does terror management theory explain ageism? Do you think this theory is more applicable for some age groups than others? Why or why not?
List the major subtypes of the category “older adults.”
Do you believe there is a double standard of aging? Why or why not?
Summarize the research on how older adults are presented in the media. What are the implications of older adults being largely absent from the media? Explain your reasoning.
Describe a television advertisement that depicts older people in a positive light.
Do you believe ageism in the media is more prevalent against older women than older men? Explain your reasoning.
Give examples of age-related stereotypes that affect older people in the workplace.
If you were an employer interested in reducing age-related bias in your hiring practices, what training would you provide? What would you do to reduce ageism on the job?
What is patronizing speech? Give examples. When is it likely to be used? Is it ever helpful? Explain why or why not.
Distinguish between people-first and identity-first language.
If you were taking an older adult to a doctor’s appointment, what would you do to ensure he or she was treated fairly?
How might a medical intake interview differ for an older and younger patient? What are the implications of those differences for treatment?
In what ways do older adults’ self-stereotypes affect their behavior in the short term? What long-term effects do these beliefs have? How could you use this information to improve older adults’
Distinguish between the legal and social definitions of disability. Why is this distinction important?
Explain how the idea that disability is socially constructed is similar to the idea that race is a social category.
Explain why disability is considered a stigma. Which disabilities are more likely to be stigmatized and why?
In what ways might social desirability response biases affect self-reported attitudes toward people with physical disabilities? Why do these biases exist?
Reread the quote by George Will at the beginning of this chapter. Based on what you know about prejudice against PWDs, is Will correct?
List three ways people in which infantilize PWDs. Explain why you believe this happens.
Recall the research on the self-fulfilling prophecy discussed in Chapter
How can overhelping older adults or persons with disabilities create a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Distinguish between aesthetic anxiety, existential anxiety, and anxiety due to unstructured social encounters with PWDs. Which type of anxiety do you believe is more common? Explain your reasoning.
How can communication between PWDs and the nondisabled be improved?
Mental illness is viewed more negatively than physical disability. Why do you think this difference exists?
List four areas where the mentally ill are likely to experience discrimination. How could this discrimination be reduced?
Nancy Etcoff has stated that “beauty rules.” Do you agree or disagree? Explain your reasoning.
What is lookism? Do you believe it affects your interactions with attractive people? Why or why not?
What advantages do taller people have over shorter people?
If you were the parent of an extremely short child, would you allow your physician to prescribe growth hormones? Why or why not?
How does the attribution-value model explain anti-fat prejudice?
How does the belief that weight is controllable affect attitudes toward the obese?
Describe the types of discrimination that the overweight experience.
If you were to design an advertising campaign to reduce anti-fat bias, what would you include?
People in many parts of the world are more likely to be overweight now than in the past. Do you believe the media’s attention to this finding increases or decreases anti-fat bias? Explain your
What is stereotype suppression? What is the rebound effect? How does the rebound effect manifest itself?
Why does stereotype suppression result in rebound? Under what conditions might stereotype suppression not result in rebound? What role do cognitive resources play in the rebound effect?
Describe the self-regulation model of prejudice reduction. Include both the development and use of cues for control. What types of people are most likely to engage in the self-regulation of prejudice?
What kind of mistakes can people make when they try to act in an unprejudiced manner?
Think about the stereotype suppression and self-regulation of prejudice models. In what ways are they similar and in what ways are they different?
Have you had any experiences with suppressing stereotypes or trying to regulate prejudiced behavior? How well do your experiences match the propositions of the models? If your experiences have
Describe the contact hypothesis. What four conditions are necessary for intergroup contact to result in reduced prejudice? Explain how each of these conditions contributes to the reduction of
What does the research on the contact hypothesis have to say about its effectiveness in reducing prejudice? What types of changes does intergroup contact produce? What factors limit the effectiveness
What is indirect contact? What forms can it take? How effective is it in reducing prejudice?
Box 13.3 noted that reading the Harry Potter novels can reduce prejudice. What other books can you think of that might also promote reductions in prejudice? What is it about those books that could
Name and define the stages of the intergroup contact process.
Describe the personalization stage of intergroup contact. What are the shortcomings of personalization as an approach to prejudice reduction?
Describe the factors that promote generalization of attitude change from the people one meets in the intergroup contact situation to their group as a whole. What effects do positive and negative
Describe how developing a common social identity reduces prejudice.
What constitutes a dual identity? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a single common identity versus dual identities? What dual social identities do you have?
What drawbacks might emerge from a common ingroup identity?
Think about the intergroup contact experiences that you have had. To what extent were the necessary and facilitating conditions for successful contact present? To what extent did the contact process
Monteith and colleagues’ (2002) self-regulation model of prejudice reduction focuses on individual cognitive and emotional processes whereas the contact model focuses on intergroup processes. In
What are the goals of affirmative action programs? What effect do these programs appear to have on prejudice?
How do the meanings people impute to the term “affirmative action” differ from its legal definition? What does the term “affirmative action” mean to you? How did you come to ascribe that
What are valuing diversity programs? What are their goals? How effective are they at reducing prejudice?
What are some of the reasons why diversity education programs fail?
What are the goals of diversity management programs? What kinds of changes must organizations make to meet those goals?
Understand why we rely on scientific methods rather than common sense to explain behavior
Learn the principles of the scientific method
Learn the basic tools of psychological research
Understand how "cause and effect" is established by experimentation
Why do we need scientific methods?
How can commonsense psychology reduce objectivity when we gather data?
Give an example of how you used common- sense psychology in the past week.
What are the characteristics of modern science?
What do we mean by objectivity? How does objectivity influence observation, measurement, and experimentation?
Suppose that a researcher believed that firstborn children have higher IQs than their later-born sisters and brothers because the mother's ova are younger when firstborns are conceived. This
How does a psychology experiment demon- strate a cause-and-effect relationship between antecedent conditions and behavior?
What do we mean by treatment conditions in an experiment? Why must there be at least two?
For each of the following examples, state at least one of the basic tools of psychological science (observation, measurement, experi- mentation) that have been violated, and ex- plain the correct
Explain why astrology is a pseudoscience rather than a true science.
Name and describe each of the four main sections of the experimental report.
Understand the roles of IRBS and the APA
Guidelines in the ethical conduct of research using human participants
Learn the meaning of animal welfare and how it is protected
Learn the meaning of animal rights and the views of animal rights activists
Understand scientific fraud and how to avoid plagiarism
Become skilled at ethical considerations of research reports
Explain why IRBs are necessary and what their major functions are.
What is informed consent? How is it related to respect for persons in the Belmont Report?
When is it appropriate to use deception? When is it not appropriate? How can the negative effects of deception be eliminated?
At the end of the semester, all students in a general psychology course are told they will not receive credit for the course unless they take part in the instructor's research project. Students who
An experimenter studying the effects of stress gave subjects a series of maze problems to solve. The subjects were led to believe that the problems were all quite easy. In fact, several had no
In a questionnaire study of sexual attitudes, a student experimenter finds that Pat, a friend's spouse, has responded yes to the question "Have you ever had an extramarital affair?" The student is

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