Meera Is a Student at Wits

question 97

Multiple Choice

Meera is a student at Wits.When asked to describe the average Wits student, she says it is almost impossible to do so because 'there are so many different kinds of people at Wits; the diversity is really amazing.' By contrast, when asked to describe the average USC student, UCT says: 'That's easy; they're all almost exactly the same.' Social psychologists would say that Meera is displaying what is known as the ____.

• A)discontinuity effect
• B)scapegoat effect
• C)minimal group effect
• D)outgroup homogeneity bias

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Definitions:

Arabic Numbers

Arabic numbers are the ten digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) used around the world today for denoting quantities.

Geographic Location

The specific physical place where something exists, characterized by coordinates like latitude and longitude, or a descriptive address or landmark.

Place Division

An organizational method that categorizes information based on geographical location or placement.

Parallelism

The use of components in sentences that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter.