AP PSYCHOLOGY

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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

ALTRUISM CONFLICT AND PEACEMAKING

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Nestor belongs to the cross-country ski club at his college, but he is not a member of the downhill ski club. In terms of basic social categories, Nestor’s cross-country fellow club members are the ____, and the members of the downhill ski club are the ____
A
nonconformists; conformists
B
ingroup; outgroup
C
conformists; nonconformists
D
outgroup; ingroup
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The out-group homogeneity effect is the perception of out-group members as more similar to one another than are in-group members, e.g. “they are alike; we are diverse".

Detailed explanation-2: -The tendency to judge the behavior of the members of your group more favorably than the behavior of members of other groups is called: in-group bias.

Detailed explanation-3: -Why is the meaning of trait level comparisons between cultures not always clear? It may not be true that the same traits can be used to meaningfully describe people from different cultures.

Detailed explanation-4: -What is one of the main problems with the Implicit Association Test? It does not have a strong relationship with how people actually behave.

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