Chapter 13 : Prejudice

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Prejudice

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a hostile or negative attitude toward people in a distinguishable group, based solely on their membership in that group.

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Stereotype

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a generalization about a group of people, in which certain traits are assigned virtually all members of a group, regardless of actual variation among the members.

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Illusory Correlation

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the tendency to see relationships, or correlations, between events that are actually unrelated.

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Discrimination

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unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group solely because of his / her membership in that group.

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Modern Racism

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outwardly acting unprejudiced while inwardly maintaining prejudiced attitudes.

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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the case wherein people have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act toward that person, which causes that person to behave consistently with people's original expectations, making those expectations come true.

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Stereotype Threat

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the apprehension experienced by members of a group that their behavior might confirm a cultural stereotype.

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Institutional Discrimination

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practices that discriminate, legally or illegally, against a minority group of virtue of its ethnicity, gender, culture, age, sexual orientation, or other target of societal or company prejudice.

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Institutional Racism

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racist attitudes that are held by the vast majority of people living in a society where stereotypes and discrimination are the norm.

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Institutionalized Sexism

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sexist attitudes that are held by the vast majority of people living in a society where stereotypes and discrimination are the norm.

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Normative Conformity

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the tendency to go along with the group in order to fulfill the group's expectations and gain acceptances.

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Out-Group Homogeneity

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the perception that individuals in the out-group are more similar to each other than they really are, as well as more similar than members of the in-groups are.

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Ultimate Attribution Error

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the tendency to make dispositional attributions about an entire group of people.

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Blaming the Victim

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the tendency to blame individuals for their victimization, typically motivated by a desire to see the world as a fair place.

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Scapegoating

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the tendency for individuals, when frustrated / unhappy, to displace aggression onto groups that are disliked, visible, and relatively powerless.

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Mutual Interdependence

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the situation that exists when two or more groups need to depend on one another to accomplish a goal that is important to each of them.

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Jigsaw Classroom

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classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice and raise the self-esteem of children by placing them in small, desegregated groups and making each child dependent on the other children in the group to learn the course material and do well in the class.