Chapter 8:  Reducing prejudice

1.  What is stereotype suppression?  What role does the monitoring and operating process have on this process?  How are these processes related to rebound effects?

2.  What are Montieth and colleague's criticisms of the suppression research?  What does their research show about suppression effects in low and high prejudiced individuals?

3.  What does it mean when one says that prejudice reduction is like breaking a bad habit?  What theory does this apply to?  What role does guilt/compunction play in this process?  

4.  What are the four conditions that improve the likelihood that intergroup contact will reduce prejudice?

5.  What effect did desegregation have on Whites and Blacks attitudes toward each other?  

6.  What are some of the beneficial effects of cooperative learning programs?  According to research on the contact hypothesis, what makes cooperative learning programs successful?

7.  When intergroup contact does reduce prejudice, what are four psychological mechanisms that can explain this effect?

8.  What is the difference between decategorizaiton, maintaining distinct social identity, recategorization?  comparing your lecture notes to the book, what type of contact mentioned in class match with the integration of your text book author proposes?

9.  What are some criticism of assimilation and multicultural approaches to prejudice reduction?

10.  What is the difference between equal opportunity policies, classical affirmative action policies, and new affirmative action policies?

11.  What does the research say about the effect of affirmative action on the tendency to stigmatize targeted groups?

12.  What does the research say about the effect of affirmative action on the self-esteem of women and racial minorities?  For instance, under what conditions will this happen?