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Answer the following question briefly:
What is attribution?
Concept: Social Perception
What is meant by bias? With the help of two examples each, explain self-serving bias and counterfactual thinking.
Concept: Social Perception
Answer the following question:
What is meant by automatic vigilance?
Concept: Social Perception
Answer the following question briefly:
What is meant by the term person positivity bias?
Concept: Social Perception
Answer the following question:
Describe the process through which people try to understand the reasons for other's behavior.
Concept: Social Perception
A biased tendency in an individual to assume that his/her beliefs and opinions are common and that others also think the same way, is known as ______.
Concept: Social Perception
Name the stage of crisis in Psychosocial Development, when one attempts to maintain their sense of dignity as they become a senior citizen and feel worthless if they fail to maintain it.
Concept: Social Perception
| Mohan follows a strict vegetarian diet and assumes that a majority of his friends and acquaintances prefer a vegetarian lifestyle. He overestimates the number of people who share the same dietary choice as him. |
- Identify the bias shown by Mohan. (1)
- Describe any two biases, citing a suitable example for each. (3)
Concept: Social Perception
Answer the following question briefly:
How is discrimination related to prejudice?
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
Answer the following question briefly:
What is meant by gender stereotypes?
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
Discuss any three causes of prejudice. Also, suggest two ways of missing prejudice.
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
Answer the following question briefly:
Mention one way to resist prejudice.
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
Explain the concept of social learning, realistic competition and stereotyping, as factors causing prejudice.
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
In the context of combating prejudice, ______ is referred to as ‘resetting the boundaries between Us and Them’.
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
Briefly explain Realistic Conflict Theory in prejudice with an example.
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
A negative behaviour or action towards individual or a group of people is termed as ______.
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
Though urban areas are inhabited by the privileged as well as the underprivileged, the interactions between these two groups are minimal and often prejudiced.
Which one of the following ways can be used to reduce this prejudice?
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
With the help of suitable examples, discuss the components of Attitude.
Concept: Nature and Components of Attitudes
As part of the Student Council, you are organising a campaign on promoting awareness among students on substance abuse. Indicate any one way of persuasion that you will use to bring a positive attitudinal change among the students.
Concept: Nature and Components of Attitudes
Soham, a dedicated stay-at-home father, is often ridiculed by his family and friends who believe caregiving responsibilities fall on the woman as the wife. Despite his commitment and capabilities in managing household, Soham constantly faces prejudice due to these biases against men as house husbands and stay-at-home-fathers while the wife goes to work. This attitude of family and friends saddens him.
- Explain any two causes for the prejudice Soham is facing. (2)
- Suggest any two strategies for Soham to overcome this prejudice. (2)
Concept: Prejudice and Discrimination
