Contact hypothesis - Quiz
  • 1. Who established the extended contact hypothesis in 1997?
A) Richard J. Crisp
B) Wright and colleagues
C) Fiona White
D) Rhiannon Turner
  • 2. What does the extended contact hypothesis suggest regarding outgroup attitudes?
A) Knowing an ingroup member has an outgroup friend improves attitudes
B) Media portrayals have no effect on prejudice
C) Direct contact is the only way to improve attitudes
D) Imagined contact is more effective than friendship
  • 3. What is vicarious contact defined as?
A) Imagining a positive social encounter
B) Direct, face-to-face interaction with an outgroup member
C) Observing an ingroup member interact with an outgroup member
D) Interacting via the internet with an outgroup member
  • 4. What is the parasocial contact hypothesis based on?
A) Positive media portrayals of intergroup interactions
B) Mental health stigma programs
C) AI-powered software agents
D) Imagining positive social encounters
  • 5. Who put forward the imagined contact hypothesis in 2009?
A) Richard J. Crisp and Rhiannon Turner
B) Rodriguez-Rivas et al.
C) Wright and colleagues
D) Fiona White
  • 6. What does the imagined contact hypothesis propose?
A) Internet interactions are superior to imagined ones
B) Imagining a positive encounter improves intergroup attitudes
C) Media consumption reduces prejudice
D) Only direct friendship reduces bias
  • 7. Who developed the Electronic- or E-contact approach?
A) Fiona White and her colleagues
B) Sahab et al.
C) Richard J. Crisp
D) Wright and colleagues
  • 8. What formats does E-contact include?
A) Only written communication
B) Imagined virtual reality encounters
C) Text-based, video-based, or both
D) Only face-to-face video conferencing
  • 9. E-contact has been shown to reduce inter-religious prejudice between which groups in Australia?
A) Catholic and Protestant students
B) Buddhist and Hindu students
C) Christian and Muslim students
D) Jewish and Muslim students
  • 10. Which groups showed reduced prejudice through E-contact in Northern Ireland?
A) Christian and Muslim students
B) Ethnic minorities
C) Religious and secular groups
D) Catholic and Protestant students
  • 11. In the context of sexual prejudice, E-contact is particularly useful for what kind of individuals?
A) Individuals living in rural areas
B) Individuals with ideologically intolerant beliefs
C) Individuals with previous direct outgroup contact
D) Individuals with high social media usage
  • 12. What impact did E-contact have on participants interacting with a person diagnosed with schizophrenia?
A) No significant change in prejudice
B) Increased awareness of symptoms
C) Increased anxiety regarding mental health
D) Reduced fear, anger, and stereotyping
  • 13. What study used an AI-powered software agent as a facilitator for intergroup E-contact?
A) Sahab et al. (2024)
B) Fiona White (2012)
C) Rodriguez-Rivas et al. (2021)
D) Crisp and Turner (2009)
  • 14. What was the setting for the Sahab et al. (2024) study regarding AI-assisted E-contact?
A) Chile
B) Northern Ireland
C) Afghanistan
D) Australia
  • 15. What is the primary benefit of using an AI-assisted chatbot in intergroup E-contact?
A) Enhancing interaction and reducing interethnic prejudice
B) Replacing the need for video-based contact
C) Eliminating the need for human participants
D) Reducing the cost of internet access
  • 16. Approximately how many studies have been guided by the extended contact hypothesis over 20 years?
A) Over 100 studies
B) Exactly 20 studies
C) Less than 50 studies
D) Over 500 studies
  • 17. According to the text, imagined contact helps improve biases toward which groups?
A) Only dominant majority groups
B) Only political groups
C) Only international sports rivals
D) Marginalized or minority groups
  • 18. In the Latin American context, where was E-contact used to reduce stigma toward mental illness?
A) Brazil
B) Chile
C) Argentina
D) Mexico
  • 19. How much empirical support has research found for the role of outgroup knowledge in prejudice reduction?
A) Extensive support
B) No support at all
C) Weak support
D) Conflicting support
  • 20. How do Rothbart and John (1985) describe belief change through contact?
A) Completely ignoring category members
B) Replacing one group with another
C) Modifying category attributes
D) Reinforcing existing prejudices
  • 21. What must happen for contact to be effective in reducing anxiety?
A) The contact must be competitive
B) The contact situation must be long enough
C) The contact must be entirely silent
D) The contact must be brief and intense
  • 22. How many studies were included in Pettigrew and Tropp's 2006 meta-analysis?
A) 515
B) 100
C) 50
D) 1,000
  • 23. What type of contact condition produces the greatest beneficial effects for reducing prejudice?
A) Situations that occur only in a digital format
B) Situations structured to include Allport's facilitating conditions
C) Situations that involve avoiding difficult topics
D) Situations that are entirely unstructured
  • 24. What happens to the level of prejudice as contact between groups increases?
A) It increases
B) It remains the same
C) It fluctuates unpredictably
D) It decreases
  • 25. According to Wilner, Walkley, and Cook, what is the cause of prejudice?
A) Racial segregation
B) Individual personality traits
C) Lack of education
D) Economic competition
  • 26. Which experiment illustrates realistic conflict theory?
A) Brown v. Board of Education
B) Robbers Cave experiment
C) The Nature of Prejudice study
D) The institutional support study
  • 27. What is another term for common goals as described by Allport?
A) Individual rewards
B) Subordinate tasks
C) Competitive incentives
D) Superordinate goals
  • 28. Who authored the book 'The Nature of Prejudice'?
A) Cook
B) Wilner
C) Allport
D) Sherif
  • 29. In what year was Allport's 'The Nature of Prejudice' published?
A) 1947
B) 1951
C) 1954
D) 1939
  • 30. Which social scientist suggested that goal interdependence could reduce intergroup hostility in 1947?
A) Floyd Allport
B) R. M. Williams
C) Gordon Allport
D) Kenneth Clark
  • 31. What event prompted social scientists to examine the effects of desegregation on racial attitudes?
A) The Great Depression
B) The Vietnam War
C) World War II
D) The Industrial Revolution
  • 32. What did Robert Carter and Thurgood Marshall solicit for the Brown v. Board of Education case?
A) Financial funding for local schools
B) Testimony from military leaders
C) New legislation to ban all protests
D) Expert opinions from social scientists
  • 33. How many conditions does Allport suggest are necessary for contact to reduce prejudice?
A) Two
B) Ten
C) Six
D) Four
  • 34. Which U.S. institution was studied for the effects of desegregation on racial attitudes?
A) The National Archives
B) The Department of Agriculture
C) The Supreme Court
D) Merchant Marine
  • 35. Which of these demographic variables was less predictive of attitudes toward gay men than contact?
A) All of them were more predictive.
B) Attitude was not measured.
C) Age.
D) None, contact was the only variable.
  • 36. In the study of white athletes, which type of sport was cited as an example of an individual sport?
A) Team relay.
B) Football.
C) Swimming.
D) Basketball.
  • 37. Which variable is explicitly listed as being less predictive of attitudes than interpersonal contact in the 1993 study?
A) Self-esteem.
B) Personal experience.
C) Marital status.
D) Social environment.
  • 38. Whose 2009 study supported the contact hypothesis for reducing prejudice toward transgender people in Hong Kong?
A) Cheso et al.
B) Daniel J. Hopkins
C) Jordan R. Axt
D) Mark E. King
  • 39. What did Jordan R. Axt and colleagues use in 2020 to assess implicit attitudes toward transgender people?
A) A novel Implicit Association Test (IAT)
B) Observations of school classrooms
C) A survey on demographic changes
D) A face-to-face interview
  • 40. What phenomenon did Fitzgerald et al. (2023) identify where contact with LGB people reduces prejudice toward transgender people?
A) Primary contact hypothesis
B) Demographic shifts
C) Implicit association reduction
D) Secondary transfer effects
  • 41. What did Savelkoul et al. (2011) find regarding people living in regions with high numbers of Muslims in the Netherlands?
A) They remained indifferent
B) They moved away from the region
C) They expressed lesser perceived threats
D) They expressed higher perceived threats
  • 42. What major limitation exists regarding the timeframe of controlled experimental studies on intergroup contact?
A) Most experiments are too short to collect any data at all.
B) Most studies last for several decades.
C) Few measure outcomes longer than one day after treatment.
D) Researchers only measure outcomes after one year.
  • 43. What example does the text use to illustrate that collaboration does not change religious dogmatic ideals?
A) Trade agreements.
B) Public schooling.
C) Political elections.
D) Ecumenism.
  • 44. What term is used to describe negative sentiments triggered by proximity?
A) Social distance
B) Confirmation bias
C) Intergroup anxiety
D) NIMBYism
  • 45. What does the acronym NIMBY stand for in the context of negative sentiments?
A) Not In My Back Yard
B) No Interest Mentally By You
C) Negative Interaction Must Be Yielded
D) Never In My Boundaries Yearly
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