When We Have Unwittingly Caused Our Stereotypic Expectations to Be

question 92

Multiple Choice

When we have unwittingly caused our stereotypic expectations to be confirmed by an out-group member's behavior, we have actually created a(n) __________.

• A) self-fulfilling prophecy
• B) fundamental attribution error
• C) minimal group bias
• D) expectations relapse

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Definitions:

Discrimination

Discriminatory actions or attitudes against people belonging to distinct categories, mainly due to factors like ethnicity, age, or sexual orientation.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus, famously demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs.

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

A stimulus that was neutral but becomes able to provoke a conditioned response after being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Response (CR)

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become conditioned through association with an unconditioned stimulus.