Do you know anything about diversity? Tolerating, accepting, and embracing diversity means that you respect that each individual is unique and serves a purpose. Diversity applies to many factors, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, economic status or class, religious beliefs, disabilities, income, age, and parental status. All these different groups of people have often experienced discrimination of some sort. This quiz is your introduction to diversity. Go for it.
Teachers become active agents of change
Teachers reach out to community members.
Students interact with community groups involved in change efforts.
All of the answers are correct.
The history of diversity in the United States
The concepts of genotype and phenotype
Ethnocentric-oriented textbooks and resources
Unbiased content materials.
They have been normed on only one racial or ethnic group (usually whites).
They are “aimed” at only one group of students.
They may be very difficult.
They are often too easy.
Relativism
Ethnocentrism
Constructivism
Adjustment
Prejudicial attitudes that protect self-concepts
Prejudicial attitudes that aid in dealing with a complex world
Prejudicial attitudes that demonstrate one’s own virtues
Prejudicial attitudes that offer criteria for making decisions about outgroups
Prejudicial attitudes that protect self-concepts
Prejudicial attitudes that aid in dealing with a complex world
Prejudicial attitudes that demonstrate one’s self-image to others
Prejudicial attitudes that offer criteria for making decisions about outgroups
Racism
Hate groups
. racial profiling
Affirmative action
Behavioral component.
Adjustment component
Affective component
Cognitive component.
Observation of respected elders
Religious fundamentalism
The media
Group membership
A marketing strategy
A practice of law enforcement that targets minority people.
A political practice that hopes to ensure votes for a candidate
All of the answers are correct.
Improving critical thinking skills.
Avoiding stereotypes.
Encouraging impulsive behavior
Encouraging examination of reasons or motivations behind one’s thoughts and actions.
Equal status contact, subordinate goals, ability grouping, and personal familiarity
Equal status contact, subordinate goals, justified hierarchies, and personal familiarity.
School norms encouraging intergroup interaction, grouping by ability, personal familiarity, and subordinate goals.
Personal familiarity, school norms encouraging intergroup interaction, equal status contact, and subordinate goals.
Setting aside a specific time each day to practice critical thinking skills.
Creating an environment of safety, trust, and respect
.maintaining balance between student talk and teacher talk.
Emphasizing metacognition
Often increases prejudice
Often decreases prejudice
Doesn’t affect prejudice very much.
Leads to the formation of ingroups
Monocultural schools are not good places to try the contact hypothesis.
Students never believe anything teachers say anyway.
Equal status within the school may not translate to equal contact outside of the school.
Change is difficult
True
False
True
False
True
False
Cognitve constraints
Behavioral constraints
Emotional constraints
Cognitive constraints
Behavioral constraints
Emotional constraints
Cognitive constraints
Behavioral constraints
Emotional constraints
Cognitive constraints
Behavioral constranits
Emotional constraints
African Americans
European Americans
Asian Americans
Hispanic Americans
Native American:
African Americans
European Americans
Hispanic Americans
Asian Americans
Native Americans
African Americans
European Americans
Hispanic Americans
Asian Americans
Native Americans
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