Batasan Hills National High School

IBP Road, Batasan Hills, Quezon City

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
GRADE-9

Topic: Prejudice and Racism

Worksheet No. 4
Prejudice
 injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights
especially : detriment to one's legal rights or claims
 preconceived judgment or opinion
 an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge
  an instance of such judgment or opinion
 an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed
characteristics
Racism
 prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their
membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prejudice

Directions: Read the statements carefully. Write the letter of the best answer.

1. Which of the following tends to be a stronger predictor of intergroup discrimination?

a. Stereotyping
b. Emotional prejudice
c. Attitudes
d. Behavior

2. Which emotion makes people stereotype relatively more?

a. Anger
b. Sadness
c. Both
d. Neither

3. In studies of intergroup emotions theory (IET), which traits do people respond more quickly to?

a. Traits that match their self-concept but not necessarily their ingroup concept
b. Traits that match their ingroup concept but not necessarily their self-concept
c. Traits that match their self-concept and their ingroup concept
d. None of the above

4. What does it mean for an intergroup representation to be “exemplar-based?”

a. It focuses on intergroup particulars

b. It focuses on intergroup abstractions
c. It focuses on general societal dimensions
d. Both A and B

5. According to enemy images theory, what is the difference between views of allies and enemies?

a. Goal compatibility
b. Status
c. Power
d. All of the above

6. According to integrated threat theory (ITT), which is NOT an antecedent to threat?

a. Intergroup relations
b. Group-based motivations
c. Individual differences on identity
d. Cultural dimensions

7. Feelings of guilt promote less prejudiced behavior by:

 a. Low-prejudice respondents
b. High-prejudice respondents
c. Both A and B
d. Neither A nor B

8. Often, people who are against affirmative action are most concerned with:

a. Protecting ingroup members

b. Derogating outgroup members
c. Both A and B
d. Neither A nor B

9. What is a primary difference between guilt and shame?

a. Guilt is other-oriented; shame is self-oriented

b. Guilt is self-oriented; shame is other-oriented
c. Only guilt is a “moral” emotion
d. Only shame is a “moral” emotion

10. Within-race genetic differences are __________ between-race genetic differences.

a. Much greater than

b. Much less than
c. Not significantly different from
d. Exactly the same as

11. Why does intergroup contact not tend to reduce sexism?

a. Men and women are already in contact

b. Men and women need each other
c. Men and women are not often of equal status
d. All of the above

12. Ambivalent sexism predicts:

a. Positive stereotypes of nontraditional women and negative stereotypes about traditional women
b. Positive stereotypes of traditional women and negative stereotypes about nontraditional women
c. Either A or B
d. Neither A nor B

13. Older people tend to be viewed with:

a. Pity
b. Sympathy
c. Condescension
d. All of the above

14. How does prejudice against gay men and lesbians differ from other prejudices?

a. Targets control category visibility

b. Relatively more widespread
c. Biological determinism is linked to tolerance
d. All of the above

15. Imagine a person holds a very strong, emotional antipathy towards members of a different social group. This person
really hates these outgroup members. This is best classified as an example of which of the following?

a. Discrimination
b. Prejudice
c. Stereotyping
d. All of the above

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prejudice
https://study.sagepub.com/fiskeandtaylor3e/student-resources/chapter-12/multiple-choice-quizzes

Prepared by: Annabel O. Narte

Teacher III- English