What Is Redlining

question 84

Multiple Choice

What is redlining?

• A)the practice of bank officials refusing to make loans to people living in certain neighborhoods
• B)the practice of drawing electoral districts that are biased against minority groups
• C)denying someone the right to vote by drawing a red line across his or her name in the voter registry
• D)the practice of drawing school district boundaries in a way that ensures segregated schools

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Definitions:

Impression Formation

The process by which individuals organize information about another person to form an overall impression of that person.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember and give more weight to information that we encounter first in a list or presentation.

Impression Formation

The process by which individuals integrate various pieces of information about another person to form a global impression of them.

Social Loafing

A situation in which people put in less effort towards reaching a goal when they are part of a group compared to when they are working solo.