The Contact Hypothesis States That

question 114

Multiple Choice

The contact hypothesis states that:

• A)our tendency to stereotype people increases with our frequency of contact with them.
• B)we are more likely to make an internal attribution of someone's behavior when we have more contact with that person.
• C)social identity theory only applies to people who have personal contact with the groups to whom they identify.
• D)we are less likely to stereotype someone as we have more interaction with him/her.
• E)self-fulfilling prophecy occurs only when the target individual does not personally meet the person making the prophecy.

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