According to the accentuation effect, the categorisation of people leads to perceive that:
the differences between people in the different category are more prominent
the differences between people in the same category are more prominent
less typical category members are often become seen as part of the “outgroup”
None of the above
According to Social Identity Theory, someone in the low status group who attempts to become part of the high status group is an example of which type of strategy to improve social identity?
Social creativity
Individual mobility
Social change
Social mobility
Which of the following is NOT a feature of optimal contact in Allport's contact hypothesis?
Prolonged cooperative activities
Equal status
Institutional support
Communicating as individuals rather than group members
According to the J-Curve hypothesis of relative deprivation, relative deprivation is particularly strong when:
the difference between one’s own achievements and others’ achievements is large
the difference between one’s own achievements and others’ achievements has endured over time
attainments suffer a sudden setback when expectations continue to rise
all of the above
Which of the following is NOT correct about self-categorisation theory?
People use prototypes to minimise differences between groups
People use prototypes to minimise differences within groups
People assign their ingroup norms to the self as guides for their behaviour
People use ingroup members as a source of informational influence
Which of the following is NOT a Process factor in Le Bon’s model of the crowd?
Anonymity
Contagion
Suggestibility
Irresponsibility
In intergroup disharmony, Berkowitz (1972) was responsible for a study that explained what?
The "long, hot summer" explanation of collective violence due to aversive and aggressive environmental stimuli.
The J-curve hypothesis, when people's state of living increases and an incident happens, their status of living starts to go down.
Summer camp studies, where it was measured how children reacted in group when on camp
In intergroup disharmony, Davie's (1969) J-Curve hypothesises that...
When people's living standards go up, and they suddenly start to feel as though they aren't getting what they deserve from society, their expectation of living standards continue to rise, but the attainment of their living standard drops.
When people begin to feel they aren't getting what they deserve so they work harder to get to where they want to be.
When you introduce a subordinate goal, groups will then begin to get along.
Runciman's (1966) Egoistic is when someone feels they are getting what they are entitled to
Runciman's (1966) Fraternalistic is when a group feels they are not getting what they are entitled to, leading to group disharmony.
When a group of people were told they were either a kandinsky fan or a klee fan, they were likely to favour the group they were given, even if they had never heard of it before,
Self categorization theory (Turner and Colleagues) uses prototypes to:
Minimise differences within groups and maximise differences between groups
Minimise differences between groups and maximise difference within groups
Which one of these are NOT a part of Referent informational influence
Self categorization
Discovering group norms
Self Stereotype into the group
Conform to the group
Get involved with an outgroup fight
What does relative homogeneity effect mean?
The tendency for people to view members of a group that is different from their own as being more similar to each other, while they view members of their own group as being more diverse.
When people view people in their group to being exactly like themselves
When people view outgroup members as being really different to eachother
In Howard and Rothbart's (1980) study, Participants were equally good at recalling whether it was an ingroup or outgroup member who performed favourable behaviours, but they were better at recalling outgroup than ingroup actors who performed unfavourable behaviours.
According to Johnson and Downing (1979), Do they believe that anonymity has a major influence on how someone behaves
Yes
No
In what way do Superordinate goals not create Intergroup Harmony?
In large crowds
If they are unsuccessful
If their is stereotyping of the other group
All of the above
