Early attempts at desegregation often failed to reduce prejudice between ethnic groups. What is the primary reason the contact hypothesis didn't work?
a. The students remained angry with each other.
b. Each group felt superior to the other.
c. The minority students didn't have equal status, and equality wasn't valued.
d. The majority students didn't try to make friends with the minority students.
Answer: C
Psychology
You might also like to view...
The idea that people are most likely to develop substance use disorders when they live under stressful socioeconomic conditions comes from the _____ perspective.
A. sociocultural B. biological C. cognitive-behavioral D. psychodynamic
Psychology
Therapies aimed mainly at understanding one's motives and actions are referred to as __________
a) action therapies. b) insight therapies. c) biomedical therapies. d) relationship therapies.
Psychology