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what is a stereotype? |
an oversimplified, generalized set of ideas that we have about others, for example, secondary head teachers are strict, intimidating, scary and male |
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what is a prejudice? |
a rigid set of attitudes or beliefs towards particular groups of people. These attitudes are usually negative, but not always |
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what is discrimination? |
the way in which an individual behaves towards another person or group as a result of their prejudiced view. this is usually negative, but could be positive. |
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what is an authoritarian personality? |
the idea that people are prejudiced because of their personality. This personality includes: being resistant to change, holding traditional beliefs and values, sticking rigidly to those beliefs, obeying authority and looking down on those of lower status. |
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what is the f scale? |
a questionnaire used to judge if someone has an authoritarian personality created and used by Adorno. |
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what is an in-group? |
a group of people we believe we have something in common with. |
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what is an out-group? |
a group of people we believe we have nothing in common with. |
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what is the social identity theory? |
we become prejudiced because we belong to different groups, so automatically categorise people as in our in-groups and out-groups. we then are prejudiced because it gives us self-esteem to think our in-group is better than another group. |
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what is competition? |
we become prejudiced when we compete with others over scarce resources. |
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what are scarce resources? |
anything valuable and in limited supply, e.g money, jobs, qualifications, prestige, victory. |
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what is cooperation? |
a way of reducing prejudice where people with prejudices work together with those who they are prejudiced against to overcome a problem. |
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what is the jigsaw technique? |
creating groups of people who are prejudiced and the people they are prejudiced against and then giving them a task where everyone has a vital role will lead people to value each other more, therefore reducing prejudice. |
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what is social contact? |
spending more time with the people you are prejudiced against will stop you being as prejudiced. |
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what is creating empathy? |
experiencing how it feels to be prejudiced against makes you less likely to be prejudiced towards others.
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