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