Psychology I / Stereotypes, Prejudice, and the Mechanics of Bias
Practice question · Match the pairs

Match each observation to the mechanism it demonstrates.

  • You remember the two employees who confirmed your view and forget the eleven who did not
  • 'Their lot are all much of a muchness; my lot are all different'
  • You sincerely reject prejudice, yet your split-second judgements still favour one group
  • Two groups work as equals toward a shared goal for months, and hostility falls
  • The contact hypothesis
  • Implicit bias
  • Confirmation bias
  • Out-group homogeneity effect
Hints
  1. Three observations describe bias persisting; one describes it weakening.
  2. The observation about split-second judgements turns on the gap between sincere belief and automatic behaviour.
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  • You remember the two employees who confirmed your view and forget the eleven who did not → Confirmation bias
  • 'Their lot are all much of a muchness; my lot are all different' → Out-group homogeneity effect
  • You sincerely reject prejudice, yet your split-second judgements still favour one group → Implicit bias
  • Two groups work as equals toward a shared goal for months, and hostility falls → The contact hypothesis
Why

Selective memory is confirmation bias; seeing the other side as interchangeable is out-group homogeneity; a mismatch between sincere values and automatic behaviour is implicit bias; and sustained cooperative equal-status contact is the condition the contact hypothesis specifies. Note the qualifiers on the last one - mere proximity between unequal or competing groups is not what reduces prejudice.

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