Mean girls question booklet.

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Question 1:
List three examples of stereotyping that occurs in the movie. (3 marks)

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Question 2:
Define in-group and out-group and identify the cliques that fit into these groups.
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Question 3:
What was Regina’s first impression of Cady? List two examples of non-verbal
communication that we use to make judgements about people when we meet them.
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Question 4:
Cady begins failing her maths tests as she becomes more involved with the plastics. Make
a personal and a situational attribution of Cady that explains her academic decline.
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Question 5:
Using the Fundamental Attribution Error, explain why Cady’s parents might believe that
she Cady is choosing to fail her tests. (3 marks)

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Question 6:
The components of the tri-component model of attitudes are: (3 marks)

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Question 7:
Using the tri-component model, explain Janice’s attitude towards the plastics. (3 marks)

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Question 8:
Define cognitive dissonance and using a scene from the film identify why Cady is
experiencing it. (3 marks)

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Question 9:
The Halo effect is an example of a cognitive bias, explain how Regina benefits from the
halo effect despite being a ‘bad person’. (3 marks)

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Question 10:
Principal Duvall wants to trial a new program where students add things, they appreciate
about each other to a ‘Love Book’ in order to replace the ‘Burn Book’. He wants to see if
writing kind things about each other will make people feel safer at school.

Write the IV, DV and a hypothesis for this experiment. (6 marks)

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