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wrbasek0 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

While looking through a pile of applications, Rosa decided to interview only the applicants who had a college degree, even though the job did not require one. Rosa is demonstrating her ____ attitude toward college graduates, and her refusal to read the noncollege graduate applications could be considered ____.

a. stereotypical; prejudicial
b. prejudicial; discriminatory
c. discriminatory; prejudicial
d. prejudicial; stereotypical

Question 2

Marcia is in charge of hiring a new engineer for her company. Because she believes that people who wear pink bows in their hair are dumb, she does not hire Becky, who is wearing a pink bow. Marcia's hiring decision about Becky is an example of ____.

a. social discrimination
b. a stereotype
c. deindividuation
d. prejudice