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30 Cards in this Set
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Define prejudice
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Negative prejudgment of a group and it's individual members
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Prejudice is an attitude. What are the ABC's of an Attitude?
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Affect
Behaviour Cognition |
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What are stereotypes?
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Belief of personal attributes of a group of people.
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Difference between prejudice and discrimination?
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Prejudices are attitudes whereas discrimination is a behavor.
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Racism, what is it?
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An individuals prejudicial attitudes and discriminating behavior towards a race even if this is not intentional.
Sexism is that of genders. |
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What is the dual attitude system of prejudice?
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Explicit is that which is consciously done
Implicit are those habitual or unconcious motivations |
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What areas of the brain activate during implicit prejudice?
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The Amygdala has been found to be activated
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What are gender roles?
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Forms of socially ascribed roldes to specific genders.
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Difference between benevolent prejudice and hostile prejudice
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Benevolent prejudice is that attribution of positive attitudes towards another while Hostile is that which attributes negative ones.
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Why do unequal status breed prejudice?
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Unequal status seem to propagate stereotypes which in turn propagate prejudice
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A motivation to have ones group be dominant over other social groups?
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Social dominance orientation
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What are some causes for authoritarian personalities?
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Ethnocentrism
Suppression of hostility to ingroup authority Submissive to ingroup authority Projection of hostility to outgroup Predisposition to power and status |
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Difference between authoritarianism and social dominance?
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Authoritarianism: concern with security and control
Social dominance: group status |
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in what way can religious beliefs stir prejudice?
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The superficial belief in ones religion
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Four sources of prejudice?
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Social Inequalities
Socialization Gender roles Institutional Supports |
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What is and when does realistic group conflicts occur?
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When the competition that occurs between groups is directed towards getting resources that are scares?
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Gause's Law?
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Realistic group conflict are highest when the needs of both groups are identical
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John Turner and Henri Tajfel's theory of social identity?
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We categorize everything
We Identify to an ingroup We compare to out groups |
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Three factors that increase prejudice toward out groups?
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Anxiety and fear
Threat to self esteem Need to belong to a group |
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What is the just world phenomenon?
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Tendency for people to believe the world is just and therefore those ho suffer get what they deserve and deserve what they get
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What is the out group homogeneity effect?
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perception of out group members as more similar to one another than are in group memebers
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When an individual feels transfigures and feels uneasy at anothers attention on them, to what do we attribute this to?
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Distinctiveness
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Illusory Correlation
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false impression that two variables correlate.
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What is the group serving bias?
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explaining away outgroup member's positive behaviors
Attributing negative behaviors to the dispositions of the group |
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What is the change in language which occurs during group serving bias?
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Linguistic inter group bias
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Two ways according to Gordon Allport that individuals perpetuate self victimization?
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blame the self
or blame the external causes |
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Three ways stereotype threat effects performance?
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Emotionally (stress effecting prefrontal cortex)
Cognitively (distraction) Motivational (energy lost on suppressing negative affect) |
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What is the personal/group discrimination discrepancy?
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The gap between seeing oneself as outside prejudice of group stereotypes.
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What is a word for stereotype of a stereotype. What affects does this have on the individual?
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Meta-stereotype
Leads to awkward interactions Decreased executive functioning |
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What are four cognitive sources for prejudice?
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Categorization
Distinctiveness Vivid Cases Distinctive Events |
