Social Psychology Chapter 11

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Stereotype

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A belief that associates a whole group of people with a certain trait

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Prejudice

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Hostile or negative feelings about people based on their membership in a certain group

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discrimination

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behaviour directed at people solely because of their membership in a particular group

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social categorization

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The practice of classifying people into in-groups or out-groups based on attributes that the person has in common with the in-group or out-group

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outgroup homogeneity effect

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people's tendency to underestimate the variability of out group members compared to the variability of in-group members

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cross-ethnic identification bias

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the tendency to see out group members as looking very similar to one another and showing greater accuracy for recognizing in-group members than out group members

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In-group favouritism

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the tendency to see evaluate one's in group more positively than out groups

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illusory correlation

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the tendency to overestimate the association between variables that are only slightly or not at all correlated

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ultimate attribution error

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an error in which people make dispositional attributions for negative behaviour and situational attributions for positive behaviour by out group members, yet show the reverse attributions for successes and failures for their ingroup members

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shifting standards model

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a model that posits that people within a group are more often compared to others within that group rather than to people in other groups.

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perceptual confirmation

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the tendency to see things in line with one's expectations

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confirmation bias

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the tendency to search for information that supports one's initial view

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stereotype threat

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the fear the one's behaviour may confirm an existing cultural stereotype, which then disrupts one' performance

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rejection-identification model

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a model which proposes that people in disadvantaged groups experience a negative impact on their well-being when they perceive prejudice and discrimination against themselves

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reverse discrimination

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preferential treatment of people in stereotyped groups

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self-fulfilling prophecy

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the tendency to seek, interpret and create information that verifies our own beliefs

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hostile sexism

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feelings of hostility toward women based on their threat to men's power

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benevolent sexism

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Having positive but patronizing views of women

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aversive prejudice

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conscious endorsement of unprejudiced beliefs about a group while at the same time holding unconscious negative attitudes toward the group

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subcategorization

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the maintenance of prior beliefs by creating separate categories for people who disconfirm these stereotypes