Describe the ignorance hypothesis and provide two major reasons why it is inadequate
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The hypothesis states that if people simply learned more about the groups toward which they harbor negative prejudices and stereotypes and against whom they discriminate, they would not demonstrate these tendencies. Problems include the fact that research does not support this hypothesis, that these tendencies tend not to be linked to "facts" and thus are relatively immune from fact-based falsification, and this approach assumes that people will readily accept information that is counter to information they already believe to be true.
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_____ refers to the fact that the way a question is presented—with certain wording or emphasis on certain aspects of the question—can influence the answer that is given
A) Metalinguistics B) Framing C) Pragmatizing D) Whorfing
When Myers and Sperry severed the corpus callosum in cats, they found that:
a. one side of the brain did not know what the other side was doing. b. abnormal eating behaviors occurred because the cats could not regulate hunger. c. the left side of the cats' bodies were not affected by this operation. d. disorganized electrical activity spread from one hemisphere to the other.