Question
Answer the following about why it is important to learn about and interact with people and cultures from foreign places, for 10 points each.
[10m] Intergroup contact decreases this phenomenon per a hypothesis by Gordon Allport from a book titled for “the nature of” this phenomenon. Allport names a scale of this phenomenon that begins with antilocution.
ANSWER: prejudice [accept The Nature of Prejudice]
[10h] In the absence of contact, one is more prone to this effect, whose implications include the cross-race bias and intergroup favoritism bias. This effect is often summarized as “they are alike; we are diverse.”
ANSWER: out-group homogeneity
[10e] Prejudice and out-group homogeneity are studied in a psychology subfield described by this term, which refers to how individuals explain the causes of other people’s behavior. People overemphasize personality in this term’s “fundamental error.”
ANSWER: attribution [or attribution theory; accept fundamental attribution error]
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Toronto A | Waterloo Basic | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |