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24 Cards in this Set
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prejudice
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preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members
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discrimination
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negative behavior toward a group or its members
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sterotype
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belief about the personal attributes of a group of people
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stereotype
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belief about the personal attributes of a group of people
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racism
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1) prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race 2) instituional practices (may not be motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given race
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sexism
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1) an individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given sex or 2) institutional practices, may not be motivated by prejudice, that subordinate people of a given sex
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social dominance orientation
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a motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups
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ethnocentric
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believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups
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authoritarian personality
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personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status
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realistic group conflict theory
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prejudice arises fro mcompetition between groups for scarce resources
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social identity
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the "we" aspect of ourself concept; the part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships
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ingroup
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a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity
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outgroups
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group that people perceive as distnitively different from or apart from their ingroup
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ingroup bias
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tendency to favor one's own group
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terror management
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people's self protective emotional and cognitive responses when confronted with reminders of their mortality
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outgroups homogeneity effect
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perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members; they are alike while we are diverse
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how do we view those within our group
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as more diverse
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own-race bias
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the tendency for people to more accurately reognize faces of their own race
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stigma consciousness
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a person's expectation of being vicimtized by prejudice or discrimination
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group-servingbias
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explaiing away outgroup members' postive behaviors, attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions (and excusing such behavior by one's own group)
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just-world phenomenon
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tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get
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subtyping
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accomadatig invidiuals who deviate from one's stereotype by thinking of them as exceptions to the rule
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subgrouping
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accomdating invididuals who deviate from one's stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group
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stereotype threat
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when facing negative stereotype, concertn that one will be evaluated based on that stereotype
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