Table 2.
Multiple-choice definition questions and answers for paired pre- and posttest
| No. | Question | Choices | Correct Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Occurs when a person from an underrepresented group is assumed to belong to a lower social category or position: |
a. Failure to Differentiate b. Status Leveling c. Stereotype Replacement d. Stereotype Suppression |
Status Leveling |
| 2. | When members of a minority group are treated as representative of their entire group rather than as individuals, especially when they are a numeric minority or the only person from that group present, it is termed: |
a. Individuation b. Microinequities c. Stereotype Replacement d. Tokenism |
Tokenism |
| 3. | Scenario: A professor says to a student “I believe that attention to race is unimportant, because racism doesn’t exist anymore.” |
a. Color-Blind Racial Attitudes b. Failure to Differentiate c. Microaggression d. Stereotype |
Color-Blind Racial Attitudes |
| 4. | Scenario: A student confuses one black graduate student with another black graduate student. |
a. Color-Blind Racial Attitudes b. Failure to Differentiate c. Microinvalidation d. Status Leveling |
Failure to Differentiate |
| 5. | The intrinsic or ingrained biases that cause us to automatically sort people into groups is termed: |
a. Explicit Bias b. Implicit Bias c. Racial Colorblindness d. Stereotype Suppression |
Implicit bias |
| 6. | Characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, which encompasses language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music, and arts is termed: |
a. Culture b. Individuation c. Race d. Social Categorization |
Culture |
| 7. | The everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership is termed: |
a. Failure to Differentiate b. Microaggressions c. Shifting Standards of Judgment d. Tokenism |
Microaggressions |
| 8. | The presumed incompetence of members of underrepresented groups, which causes well-qualified underrepresented individuals to be judged as highly competent, compared with members of their group, but they are held to even higher standards and require greater proof of competence than comparable members of the majority group is termed: |
a. Competency Proving b. Discrimination c. Failure to Differentiate d. Shifting Standards of Judgment |
Shifting Standards of Judgment |
| 9. | A category of people who identify with each other based on similarities, such as common ancestry, language, society, culture, or nation is termed: |
a. Diversity b. Ethnicity c. Genetic Ancestry d. Race |
Ethnicity |
| 10. | The deliberate, conscious, easy to self-recognize systemic prejudice and/or discriminations is termed: |
a. Explicit Bias b. Implicit Bias c. Microaggressions d. Microinequities |
Explicit Bias |
| 11. | The inclusion of different types of people (such as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization is termed: |
a. Culture b. Diversity c. Ethnicity d. Racial Colorblindness |
Diversity |
| 12. | The action or state of including, or of being included within, a group or structure is termed: |
a. Bias b. Diversity c. Exclusion d. Inclusion |
Inclusion |