Aronson Argues That the Most Effective Way to Reduce Prejudice

question 43

Multiple Choice

Aronson argues that the most effective way to reduce prejudice is to:

• A) allow people to choose whether they will desegregate so that cognitive dissonance causes them to change their attitudes
• B) use information campaigns to change people's attitudes
• C) require people to desegregate with no options of going back to segregation
• D) try to keep prejudiced groups apart as much as possible to reduce frustration and competition

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Definitions:

Gene Effects

The impact that individual genes, their mutations, and combinations have on the traits or conditions of an organism.

Codominant

A genetic scenario where two different alleles are expressed equally in the phenotype of heterozygous individuals.

Incomplete Dominance

A genetic phenomenon in which neither allele is completely dominant, resulting in a phenotype that is a blend of the parental traits.

Recessive

A genetic term describing an allele that expresses its phenotype only when its paired allele is identical.