All Matches

Solution Library

Expert Answer

Textbooks

Search Textbook questions, tutors and Books

Oops, something went wrong!

Change your search query and then try again

Result Not Found

Books FREE
Tutors
Study Help
Hire a Tutor
AI Study Help New

Search
Sign In
Register

study help
social science
positive psychology

Questions and Answers of Positive Psychology

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?
Why do you think physical appearance is such an important component of age-related stereotypes?
Explain the double standard of aging. On what dimensions is it most likely to emerge?
List the major subtypes of the category “older adults.”
Under what circumstances might a younger person’s forgetfulness lead to negative evaluations?
Describe a television advertisement that depicts older people in a positive light.
Is it important or unimportant that older adults are largely absent in the media? 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? As this same employer, what would you do to reduce ageism on the job site?
What is patronizing speech? Give examples. When is it likely to be used?Is it ever helpful? Explain why or why not.
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?
Who is more likely to be disabled in the United States? How is disability status determined?
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?
Why do you think social desirability might affect self-reported attitudes toward people with physical disabilities?
Reread the quote by George Will at the beginning of this chapter. Based on what you know about prejudice against PWDs, is this quote accurate?
List three ways people infantilize PWDs. Explain why you believe this happens.
Recall the research on the self-fulfilling prophecy, discussed in Chapter 3.How can overhelping older adults or persons with disabilities create a self-fulfilling prophecy?
What two types of anxiety can emerge in interactions with PWDs?
How can communication between PWDs and the nondisabled be improved?
What stereotypes are associated with mental illness?
Mental illness is viewed more negatively than physical disability. State your opinion about the reasons for this difference.
List four areas where the mentally ill are likely to experience discrimination.
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?
Americans are more likely to be overweight now than in the past. Do you believe the media’s attention to this finding increases or decreases the anti-fat bias? Explain your reasoning.
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
Explain 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
Describe the personalization model of intergroup contact. How does personalization differ from decategorization? What are the shortcomings of the model?
Describe the salient categorization model of intergroup contact. How does it address the shortcomings of the personalization model? What issues of stereotyping does the model raise? How does it deal
Describe the common ingroup identity model of intergroup contact. What types of group representations does the model say can result from intergroup contact? How are those representations related to
Explain how Pettigrew’s (1998a) combined intergroup contact model resolves the apparent contradictions among the personalization, salient categorization, and common ingroup identity models.
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?
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?
People are born having no culture, but they start paying attention to cultural information, and being socialized by that information, at a very early age.
As part of development, there is a sensitive period for language acquisition and a sensitive period for acquiring culture. People are biologically prepared to learn language and culture during the
Becoming a cultural being is a developmental process, and cultural practices and institutions shape people as they age. Psychological processes become more pronounced with age as well.
Different cultural practices start to emerge early in life. Variations in the personal experiences, and personal space, of infants include when they sleep, how much physical contact they have with
The kind of attachments children form with their caregivers varies across cultures, and attachment styles influence the adult relationships they'll have in the future.
Across cultures, parents have different parenting styles for socializing their children.
Recognized styles include authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglectful parenting.
Children learn nouns and verbs differently across cultures, due to the way parents call their attention to features of objects or the relationships between objects.
The "terrible twos" is a common transition period for Western toddlers, but this period is less difficult in non-Western cultures, where children are not encouraged to be as independent.
Although adolescence is often viewed as a time of rebellion and aggression in the West, most subsistence societies around the world do not experience it this way. Cultures where adolescents take on
Socialization occurs largely through schooling, and the process of being educated shapes the way people think.
Different approaches to math education in the East and West are reflected in performance results cross-culturally.
Exposure to a language at a young age affects the ability to discriminate between different sounds because: a Infants have a poor ability to distinguish between similar phonemes, but with exposure in
A noun bias refers to which of the following?a. People describe themselves more with nouns than with adjectivesb. The first words children learn are usually nouns rather than other kinds of words.c.
Which of the following statements about adolescence is not true?a. Adolescence is a life stage that is not universally recognized in all culturesb. Societies with more traditional roles tend to have
Lee Hom and Eason, age 25, are Hong Kong natives who have recently moved to Canada after having lived in Hong Kong all their lives Based on research into a sensitive period for culture acquisition,
The Singhs, an Indian family, are trying to decide on room arrangements for a new house they're building. Which of the following moral principles is likely to be the least important for this
Shawna, a mother from the United Kingdom, is trying to determine which parenting style she should use with her child to maximize the child's school achievement, independence, and self-reliance.
Since humans would seem to be better off if they could always acquire a language easily. why might there be a sensitive period for language acquisition?
If humans are biologically prepared to learn the surrounding culture, what kind of culture might you expect of children who are raised in the wild?
What are some implications we might expect for immigrants if it becomes harder to acquire new cultural information after a certain age?
How do you think infants' perceptions of themselves and their relationship with their mothers vary depending on whether or not they co-sleep?
What are some tradeoffs with strict parenting across cultures?
Why is adolescent rebellion more of a problem in modern industrialized societies than in nonindustrialized societies?
What are some reasons children who attend schools in East Asia generally do better on math tests than students who attend schools in other countries?
This book uses two definitions for culture: Culture is information people get from other members of their species through social learning; a culture is a dynamic group of people sharing a similar
Cultural psychology views mind and culture to be ultimately inseparable. Our thoughts, actions, and feelings are shaped by cultural information that gives them meaning.
The human brain is shaped by experiences, and culture provides people with experiences, leading to cultural differences in activation of certain brain regions, as well as associated psychological
The Sambia provide a dramatic example of how various cultural experiences can lead to diverse understandings of sexuality.
The four levels of universality of psychological processes, from lowest to highest, are nonuniversal, existential universal, functional universal, and accessibility universal.
The extent of universality that exists for most psychological processes is still unclear, because the database for psychological research has generally been limited to North
American undergraduates in psychology courses.When people adopt a multicultural approach and respect cultural differences, people of different cultural groups tend to get along better.
I. According to the definitions in this book, which of the following would not be a good example of culture?a. iPhones.b. A child learning how to tie her shoes from her mother.c. A child figures out
2. An important difference between cultural psychologists and general psychologists is:a. General psychologists study people who have had their culture statistically controlled for.b. Cultural
3. A key belief of the Sambia is:a. People are born gay and become straight with experience.b. There are no differences between women and men, so both women and men engage in warfare.c. The primary
4. Imagine a psychological process that exists in all cultures, but is activated for different reasons across cultures. This would be evidence for a(n)a. nonuniversalb. existential universalc.
5. You review all the studies that you've done in your career and realize that they all use WEIRD samples. Based on this characteristic of your samples, which of the following challenges is the most
6. While chatting over coffee with your friend, you overhear someone say, "I don't understand how those Hindus let cattle wander around their cities and not eat them. Where I come from, cattle are
1. What kinds of groups are cultures? Can you think of examples of some groups that would clearly deserve the label "culture," and other groups that would clearly not?
2. In what ways are other psychology courses you've taken similar to or different from Shweder's description of general psychology?
3. What does it mean to say that culture and mind make each other up?
4. The behaviors of Sambian initiation rituals would surely qualify as sexual crimes in most, if not all, modern industrialized cultures. Do you think the rituals are morally wrong because they
5. Given the variation in kinds of marriages that are practiced around the world, in what ways can we say that marriage itself is a cultural universal?
6. What can psychologists do to ensure that they don't rely so much on WEIRD samples? Name some of the costs and benefits of maintaining a multicultural perspective. How about a color-blind
7. What are some of the distinctive norms and practices of the cultures you belong to?
Although many species are capable of certain types of learning, humans depend on cultural learning more than any other animals.
Humans appear unique in that they choose who to learn from, and they tend to imitate those with prestige, those who are similar to them, and behaviors that are common.
Cultural learning is facilitated by mentalizing, language, and a motivation to share experiences and goals with other people.
Humans engage in imitative learning, whereas the social learning of chimpanzees is more often emulative learning.

Showing 4700 - 4800 of 5178

First
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52

Services

Sitemap
Fun
Definitions
Become Tutor
Study Help Categories
Recent Questions
Expert Questions

Company Info

Security
Copyrights
Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions
SolutionInn Fee
Scholarship

Get In Touch

About Us
Contact Us
Career
Jobs
FAQ
Campus Ambassador

Secure Payment

Download Our App

© 2024 SolutionInn. All Rights Reserved