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Correspondent Inference
Attribution. 1) Freely Chosen behaviour. 2) Non common effects. 3) (not) socially desirable. 4) Consequences for self (hedonic relevance) 5) Personalism.
Covariation model (Kelley)
Attribution. 1) Consistency. 2) Distinctiveness. 3) Consensus.
Emotional lability (Schachter)
Attribution. Arousal, then cognition labels the emotion.
Self perception theory (Bem)
We gain knowledge of ourselves by making self-attributions.
Weiner's attributional theory
1) Locus. 2) Stability. 3) Control.
Linguistic Category Model
Attribution bias. 1) Descriptive action verb e.g. Kiss. 2) Interpretvie action verb e.g. Help. 3) State verb e.g. Believe. 4) Adjective e.g. Honest
New Racisim - types
Aversive, modern, symbolic, regressive and ambivalent.
Genocide and Rwanda
Hutu dictatorship. In 1994 after Hutu president was killed, radical group Hutu Power took control of governement and directed genocide of Tutsi community.
Indirect Genocide
Massive material disadvantage - steep decline. Ethnic death is cultural assimilation in which cultural group disappears through rape, intermarriage, systematic suppression.
Contrast prejudice, stereotype and discrimination
Prejudice is the negative attitude, stereotypes are the negative beliefs and discrimination is the negative behaviour
Targets of prejudice and discrimination
Ethnicity/race, gender, sexual orientation, people with disabilities andageing people
Define a) Biological Sex b) Gender c) Sex/Gender Role
a) The alleged physiological and anatomical characteristics of maleness and femaleness with which a person is born. b) The individual’s sense of masculinity of femininity. c) The separate expectations of behaviour for men and women as determined by society and culture
Frustration Aggression hypothesis
That all frustation leads to aggression, and all addression comes from frustation. used to explain prejudice and intergroup aggression.
Authoritarian personality
Personality syndrome, originating in childhood, that predisposes individuals to be prejudiced.
Dogmatism and close-mindedness
Cognitive style that is rigid and intolerant and predisposes people to be prejudiced,
Right-wing authoritarianism
1) Conventionalist - adherence to societal conventions. 2) authoritarian aggression - support for aggression toward social deviants. 3) authoritarian submission - submission to society's established authorities.
Social dominance theory
Theory that attirbutes prejudice to an individual's acceptance of an ideology that legitimises ingroup serving hierarchy and domination, and rejects egalitarian ideologies.
Belief congruence theory
The theory that similar beliefs promote liking and social harmony among people while dissimilar beliefs produce dislike and prejudice.
Acculturation
Process by which a culture or minority group comes to adopt the culture knowledge, values, practices & language of another (often dominant) group.
Enculturation
Process of adaptation by which people learn values, norms and requirements of a culture and to function in it.
Ethnography
A qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. Participant observer.
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Scientific study of human behavior & mental processes, including both their variability & invariance, under diverse cultural conditions
Cultural Psychology
Holds that human behavior is significantly influenced by cultural differences
Is beginning to engage more fully with the richness of indigenous psychologies
Interdependent self
Informed by Buddhism drew on idea of "dependent origination", or the idea that everyhting is interlinked and stems from dependence on something else.
Emic
Emic involves developing insights & methods from within one’s culture often from historical & religious texts [Buddhism, Hinduism etc] Concepts missed by outsiders
Etic
Etic involves indigenous psychs adapting existing insights & methods from outside their cultures for use in local contexts. Dialogues across cultures
Two effects of low self esteem
1. Alerts the possiblity of social exclusion/rejection.
2. Motivates action toward social inclusion.
State self esteem
Monitors current relational value.
Trait self esteem
Assesses the degree to which one is the sort of person who generally will be valued by desirable groups and relationship partners
Define: stereotype
Widely shared beliefs about the personalitites, attitudes and behaviours of poeple based on the social groups they belong to.
Define: Stereotype threat
Threat that individual's actions will a) be judged and evaluated according to domain-related negative stereotype and/or b) confirm negative stereotype.
Two possible consequences of stereotype threat?
1) Domain avoidance to sidestep 2) Domain disidentification - permanent strategy.
Define: self-presentation
The process by which individuals attempt to control the impressions others form of them.
Define: self-presentation carry-over effect
Behaviour -> Self-beliefes -> behaviour
Effects of self-presentation on the self?
1) Self perception theory. 2) Biased scanning (of self attributes) 3) Reflected appraisal 4) Public commitment.
Define: supplication
self-presenting in a negative, helpess way to elicit help from others.
What are the 5 stages of helping?
Notice, Interpret, Responsibility, Decide, Help
List Raven's 6 sources of power.
Reward power, coercive power, informational power, expert power, legitimate power, referrent power.