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Hraba and Grant (Doll Choice)  

Past exam short questions

 

1

(a)

 

Outline one difference between the results on doll choice found by Clark and Clark and those found by Hraba and Grant.    

 

[2]

 

 

 

(b)

Give one possible explanation for this difference.

[2]

 

1998


 

 

 

 

2

Hraba and Grant found that Black children in 1969 showed a greater preference for Black dolls than Black children did in 1939.  Give two explanations for this change.

 

  [4]

 

1999


 

 

 

 

3

The study by Hraba and Grant on doll choice found evidence of ethnocentric bias, one feature of which is the overestimating of the worth of people in the same group

 

 

 

 

 

 

(a)

Outline one way in which the white children were ethnocentric.

[2]

 

 

 

(b)

Suggest one problem that psychologists face when they study ethnocentric bias.

  [2]

 

January 2001


 

 

 

 

4

(a)

 

Hraba and grant studied the changes that have occurred in the way that Black Americans perceive themselves.  Name two of the factors measured in this study.       

 

 

  [2]

 

 

 

(b)

What social changes had taken place between the carrying out of the original study and the replication?

  [2]

 

Sample 2000


 

 

 

 

5

(a)

In the study on doll choice by Hraba and Grant, the children were asked questions which were designed to measure three variables.  Identify one of these variables?

 

  [2]

 

 

 

(b)

How did the results of Hraba and Grant compare with those obtained by Clarke and Clarke in relation to one of those variables?

 
[2]

 

June 2001


 

 

 

 

 

6

(a)

 

Outline one way in which the social and political context of Hraba and Grant’s study on doll choice differed from Clark and Clark’s study

 

 

  [2]

 

 

 

(b)

In what way might the change in context have caused the difference in results found between the two studies?

 
[2]

 

January 2002


 

 

  7

In their study of doll choice, Hraba and Grant found that Black children in 1969 showed a greater preference for Black dolls than Black children did in 1939.  Give one explanation for this change. 

 

[2]

May 2003


8
(a)

Identify two of the variables that were measured in the doll choice study by Hraba and Grant.

[2]
     
(b) Outline one difference between the findings of Hraba and Grant and those of Clark and Clark. [2]
 

January 2004


 

 

9

From the Hraba and Grant study on doll choice:
 
     
(a) outline one similarity with the Clark and Clark study; [2]

(b)

outline one difference from the Clark and Clark study.

[2]
 

May 2004


 
11 Outline one problem with Hraba and Grant's use of dolls to measure racial identification and racial preference.
[2]
 

May 2005


 
     
     
     
12 Outline why Hraba and Grant repeated the study conducted by Clark and Clark in 1939 on doll choice.
[2]
 

January 2006


 
     
     
13 (a) Describe what Hraba and Grant were measuring by asking children to 'Give me the doll that you want to play with.'

(b) Suggest one limitation of the self report measures used in this study.


[2]


[2]

 

May 2006


 
     
     
     
14 Hraba and Grant examined the racial preference of black and white children.  Outline two problems of studying racial preference.  

[4]

 

January 2007