Jaipardy Exam 3

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100

How is controllability related to weight stereotypes and prejudice?

• Study with electric shocks - Vann, 1976
• Rodin et al.
• Joslyn & Haider-Markel
• Weight loss TV shows

200

True or False

White women rated heavy women as less attractive, intelligent, successful, and happy (especially if towards a white woman). 

Black women ONLY rated thin women as more attractive than heavy women

True

300

What evidence exists that overweight and obese individuals are at a disadvantage when it comes to school and academics?

A classic study in 1961 in which 600 children ranked whom they would most like as a friend

• Most students ranked the obese child as the person they would least like to be friends with
• Ranked from child with no handicap, child with crutches, child in wheelchair, amputee, facial disfiguration, obese.
  
  
• Students with obesity received lower grades than students without obesity.  There were no differences in the achievement or intelligence test scores between obese and nonobese students.
• After interviewing for graduate programs those with higher body weights were less likely to be accepted

400

Describe evidence of weight-based discrimination in the workplace

• People rate obese coworkers as less desirable, and lower workplace success.  They are perceived as having an inability to project the proper image, viewed as responsible for their weight, and will cost the organization more in terms of absenteeism and health care costs.
• People rated obese coworkers as less desirable workers for hire, allocated lower salaries and raises to obese workers, and find obese workers to be less suitable.

500

True or False 

The experience of weight-based discrimination does not negatively impact physical health

False

After controlling for demographic and background variables overweight and obese people who reported being a target of weight-based discrimination were more likely to have decrements in health outcomes and disability

That

100

Can negative age stereotypes become a self-fulfilling prophesy? Explain

Yes

Older adults were randomly assigned to a set of old age stereotypes – either positive or negative.  They were measured across different aspects like memory, walking speed, and oter physical tests, and self-report of age-related things

Negative age stereotype primes produced negative behavior and Positive age stereotype primes produced positive behaviors

The impact of negative stimuli on behavior was much larger than the effect of positive stimuli

200

Describe one piece of evidence that weightism exists in the health care system. 

• Obese people have to pay more than thinner people for the same coverage
• Obese people are denied health benefits because of their weight
• There can be a delay in treatment from their physicians and nurses due to subtle stereotypes and negative reactions

300

How are people with obesity portrayed in news stories?

Negative!

400

What are the most common types of age discrimination? (English Longitudinal study)

Being treated with less respect and being assumed to be less intelligent

500

Describe the Cuddy & Fiske (2002) study related to competence and warmth

Participants read a description of an elderly adult that incorporated the warm traits in the elderly stereotype.  Participants read either about the person’s poor or excellent memory

Elderly targets who were described as low in competence were given a higher warmth rating.

This one

100

What does a  “second or hidden disorder” refer to?

“adds additional burden of disease including impaired psychosocial functioning, withdrawl from society and social isolation

200

Describe two key findings regarding internalized stigma and anticipated discrimination regarding perceived public stigma in adults with ADHD

• 39.8% of participants reported high levels of alienation.  
• 69.2% of participants reported high stigma resistance.  
• 23.3% reported high internalized stigma.  
• 88.5% of participants reported anticipated discrimination.  
• 71.8% reported anticipation of discrimination from their employer.  
• 66% of participants anticipated discrimination from their work colleagues and 55.9% from public benefit officials.  
• 52.9% of participants anticipated discrimination from their adult neighbors and 43.4% when dating someone

300

What were the most frequently perceived public stereotypes regarding perceived public stigma in adults with ADHD? 

“Adults with ADHD simulate their symptoms”, “ADHD is invented by drug companies”, “ADHD is caused by extensive exposure to video games or TV shows”,” ADHD is a childhood disorder not seen in adults”, “ADHD is caused by bad parenting”, and “Adults with ADHD act without thinking”.

400

Name one theme from the original theorized taxonomy were not supported by the data

Assumption of One’s Own Religion as the Norm 

The Denial of Religious Prejudice.  

500

What percent of Muslims in the U.S. are immigrants?

69%

That One

100

What type of TV show has seen an increase in representation of overweight and obese individuals?

Weightloss TV shows

200

What were two themes that emerged from the data from the Microaggressions toward Muslim Americans article? 

• Endorsing Religious Stereotypes of Muslims as Terrorists
• Pathology of the Muslim Religion
• Assumption of Religious Homogeneity
• Exoticization
• Islamophobic or Mocking Language
• Alien in Own Land

300

What evidence exists of Islamophobia against Muslim Americans?

In 2007 there were 2,652 reported cases of civil-rights violations against Muslims.  141 reported cases were of passenger profiling and 613 were reported cases of hate mail.

400

What was one theme that Posthuma & Campion (2009) found regarding stereotypes of older people in the workplace? 

They are less motivated and competent at work

Perceived to be harder to train or retrain -> less valuable as employees

Perceived to be more expensive because they have higher salaries and use more healthcare benefits due to declining health

500

Describe the Duncan & Schaller (2009) study in which participants were shown either a slideshow about germs or a slideshow about accidents.

• Participants were shown either a slideshow about the presence of germs or a slideshow about an accident

When participants were reminded that germs are present in the environment ageists attitudes increased

Greatest among people who felt vulnerable to infections or illness

Only significant among European participants

The other one

100

True or False

10% of CEO's are overweight or obese

False

Only 5%

200

Describe the Wurm & colleagues (2013) study about engaging in adaptive health strategies

Positive internalized aging beliefs led to adaptive health strategies.  Healthy-coping strategies affected self-rated health.

Negative self-perceptions of aging led to lower use of positive coping health strategies which led to lower life satisfaction and lower self-rated health

300

True or False

Young adults are more likely to hold negative age stereotypes compared to older adults

False

Older adults are more likely

400

What is the definition of ageism provided in the textbook?

Attitudes and beliefs, feelings, and behavior toward people based on their old age

500

True or False

Michigan is the only state that prohibits weight-based discrimination

True