The Take-Home Message from the Research on the Extended Contact

question 100

Multiple Choice

The take-home message from the research on the extended contact hypothesis is

• A) if you make the effort to become friends with a member of an out-group it can have far-reaching positive effects.
• B) extended contact between ethnic groups lead to competition for resources, derogation, and discrimination against the competing group.
• C) extended contact causes members of an out-group to experience fear that they'll behave in a manner that confirms existing stereotypes.
• D) there is no relationship between cross-group friendships and levels of prejudice.
• E) extended contact enhances the in-group bias of both groups.

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Definitions:

Pheromones

Chemical substances produced and released into the environment by an animal, affecting the behavior or physiology of others of its species.

Genes

Units of heredity that are transferred from a parent to offspring and are held to determine some characteristics of the offspring.

Sapir-Whorf Thesis

The theory that the structure of a language influences its speakers' world view or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.

Rites of Passage

Ceremonial events or processes that mark an individual's transition from one social status to another.