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| Does a women’s income drop if she becomes a man? |
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| What happens to a man’s income if he becomes a woman? |
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| How do we know that stigma attached to transgender people does not explain the drop in income men experience when they become women? |
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| When women become men their income does not drop |
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| If changes in income were explained solely by prejudice against transgender individuals, what would we expect to see? |
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| A person who changed from being a man to a woman, or from being a woman to a man would experience the same loss of income. |
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| What evidence would you need in order to show that a man’s change to become a woman caused a decline in his income? |
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| The man who becomes a woman had a higher income before the change and a lower income after the change. |
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| What happened to women’s pay relative to men’s from the 1980s to the 1990s |
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| Women’s pay increased relative to men’s. |
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| Since the 1990s there has been little change in the pay gap between men and women in the United States. |
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| For which group is the pay gap the largest? |
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| According to OECD data, which of the countries for which data is shown has the largest gap between men’s and women’s wages? |
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| According to OECD data, what is the percentage gap between men’s and women’s wages in the United States? |
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| What percent of males valued status in the 1970s and the 1990s? |
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| In the 1970s about 23% of males valued status and in the 1990s about 32% of males valued status. |
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| What percent of females valued status in the 1970s and the 1990s? |
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| About 20% valued status in the 1970s and about 32% in the 1990s. |
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| While in the 1970s, fewer women than men valued status, in the 1990s, about the same proportions of women and men valued status. |
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| Fewer women than men value extrinsic rewards |
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| More men than women value leisure time. |
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| Equal numbers of men and women value intrinsic rewards. |
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| Male and female preferences completely explain the gender gap in pay. |
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| Part of the reason that men make more than women is that men and women tend to be in different occupations. |
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| Young women today make less than men because they are less educated than men. |
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| According to the 2009 data provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, what is the most common occupation for women? |
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| secretary/administrative assistant |
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| According to the 2009 data provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, which of the top 20 female occupations pays the best? |
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| Women who are in the same occupations as men make the same amount of money. |
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| 1. In the study conducted by Correll and her colleagues, participants: |
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| Saw parents as less competent and committed than nonparents……? |
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| 2. Motherhood is responsible for part of the gender gap in pay. |
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| 3. Men are penalized for being fathers while women are rewarded for being mothers. |
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| 4. In Correll’s study, how do we know that mothers received low ratings because of their motherhood status and not because of something else about them (like their qualifications)? |
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| Because the résumés in Correll’s study were identical except for the gender of the job applicant and whether or not the applicant was a parent and participants were randomly assigned to read one of the resumes…….? |
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| Our unconscious racial biases control our behavior. |
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| According to status researchers, people believe racial stereotypes and those beliefs cannot be changed |
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| What data support the theory that people make assumptions about competence based on race |
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| Experiment participants pay less attention to suggestions by blacks than by whites, but they pay more attention when they learn that the black partner is competent. |
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| Status characteristics research shows that when someone is seen as less competent: |
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People are less likely to pay attention to that individual’s ideas.
People see that individual as less deserving. |
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| According to status researchers, why would the race of a car buyer affect how good a deal he gets? |
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| White men generally have higher status and income than other groups. They can afford to pay more and therefore are expected to pay more. |
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| How did Webster and Driskell know that the partner’s race affected the individual’s decisions? |
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| Because people who had black partners were more racist than people who had white partners |
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| How did Lovaglia and his colleagues make handedness a status characteristic? |
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| Lovaglia and his colleagues give some experiment participants information that people who were right-handed would have a very difficult time completing the experimental task; and gave other participants information that right-handers would be very good at the experimental |
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| How did Lovaglia decide which participants would get what kind of information? |
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| He assigned all female participants to get information that right-handers would have a hard time and assigned all male participants to get information that right-handers would have an easy time.,,,, |
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| What does random assignment do? |
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| It helps us make sure that experiment participants are representative of the general population. |
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| What did Lovaglia and his colleagues find? |
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| People who were randomly assigned to a low-status position got lower scores on an IQ test than people who were randomly assigned to a high-status position. |
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| In Lovaglia’s experiment, what happened to subjects who were told that, because of their handedness, they would not be good at the experimental task (and therefore would take home less money)? |
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| They scored lower on an IQ test |
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| What did Jane Elliott do to teach the children in her classroom about discrimination? |
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| One day she told the class that blue-eyed people were inferior and on the other day she told them that brown-eyed people were inferior. |
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| In the documentary “A Class Divided,” how did the children treat each other during Jane Elliott’s exercise? |
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| There were conflicts between the children with blue and brown eyes that had not been there before. |
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| If you lived in New Orleans, which of the following in-class exercises would best accomplish Jane Elliott’s goal? |
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| Randomly assign kids to wear one color neckband or the other. Then assign one color neckband to be the inferior group. |
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| In the documentary “A Class Divided,” what happened to the blue-eyed children on the day that they were told that they were inferior to the brown-eyed children? |
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| Their test scores went down. |
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| What happened when Jane Elliott tried her exercise with adults? |
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| The adults in the low-status position became frustrated. |
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| The class exercise had long-term effects on children’s grades |
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| Children in the low status condition treated old friends differently than they normally did |
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| Jane Elliott’s experience shows that adults don’t experience discrimination in the same way that children do; therefore her exercise did not work. |
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| In Milgram’s experiments, how many people were willing to administer the most painful level of electric shocks |
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| Why were participants willing to do this? |
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| They were following the instructions of an authority figure. |
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| What was the dependent variable in the Milgram study? |
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| The severity of shocks that the participant (teacher) imposed. |
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| What happened if the participant (teacher) didn’t want to impose the shock? |
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| The experimenter urged the participant to continue |
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| Why was Milgram interested in the shocks that the participant was willing to give? |
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| Because that measure provided an indicator of obedience |
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| Why did the Stanford student participants behave as they did? |
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| They were influenced by the situation. |
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| How did the experiment begin? |
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| Students were arrested by police and taken to the experiment location. |
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| Zimbardo had participants wear sunglasses in order to dehumanize them |
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| How were participants assigned to be guards or prisoners? |
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| Students were randomly assigned to be guards or prisoners. (edited by emily, the correct answer is random assignment) |
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| What was the purpose of the Zimbardo study? |
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| To investigate how people are affected by their situation |
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| According to Zimbardo, the events at Abu Ghraib were the results of a few bad apples |
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| What did Army officials say about the Abu Ghraib abuses |
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| Don’t judge your army based on the actions of a few. |
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| What is the Lucifer Effect? |
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| Factors that lead ordinarily good people to do evil things |
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| According to Zimbardo, there are no bad apples |
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| According to Zimbardo, most evil in the world is caused by |
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| Good apples in a bad barrel |
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| According to the video clips, people who become terrorists are: |
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| An individual would be equally likely to become a suicide bomber if they grew up in Pullman, WA or if they grew up in Sri Lanka. |
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| The Tamil Tigers are very professional |
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| ~In the Tamil Tigers, what percent of attacks are committed by women |
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| About 30%. Or 10% or about 5 think I got it wrong |
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| In “A Terrorist in the Family,” what happened to Darshika’s father? |
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| He was postal worker who was killed by a government bomb. |
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| If terrorists are driven by a desire for retaliation, what kind of policy would reduce terrorism |
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| A policy that says that Americans should seek to create good will in other countries rather than rely solely on its military might. |
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| If people see terrorism as a useful strategy because it attracts media coverage, what kinds of actions would reduce terrorism? |
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| Stop covering terrorist stories on television. |
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| We become more resilient when we resist illegitimate authority |
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| We become more resilient when we cover up our mistakes |
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| We become more resilient when we blame others for our actions |
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| We become more resilient when we treat everyone as an individual |
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| We become more resilient when we remember the past and anticipate the future. |
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