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Stereotype |
An oversimplified, generalised set of beliefs that assumes all members of a group are similar |
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Stereotyping study description |
• Parents asked to describe newborn babies. • Parents of boys described their babies as being alert and strong. Parents of girls described their babies as soft and delicate. • Parents stereotype their children from a v early age despite no stereotypical behaviour being shown. Also shown in painting rooms pink or blue |
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Prejudice |
A rigid set of attitudes or beliefs towards a particular group of people |
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Discrimination |
The difference in treatment and the way an individual behaves towards a person as a result of prejudice. |
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Tajfel (1970) description |
• Group of 14/15 year olds asked to estimate amount of flashing circles. Either told they under or overestimated - how the groups were decided. Both shown a table with pairs of points and were told to pick a pair, one value going to one group and the other value to the other. Told points = prizes. • Participants chose pairs with the largest difference - smallest gain they could give the other group. • People tend to try to create a higher gain for ingroups whilst keeping a lower gain for outgroups, no matter how trivial the difference in group is. People discriminate against outgroups just because they aren't part of the ingroup. |
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Authoritarian personality |
A personality trait that is prone to being prejudiced. |
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F-Scale |
A personality test designed in 1947 to measure authoritarian personality |
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Adorno (1950) description |
• Hundreds interviewed using the F-scale • Found a relationship between personality traits and prejudiced views • There's an authoritarian personality and people with these characteristics are highly likely to be prejudiced |
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Contact as a method of reducing prejudice |
Understanding and humanising members of the group that would normally be discriminated against reduces prejudice |
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Teamwork as method of reducing prejudice |
Giving a single task all groups must work towards helps bring people together and reduces prejudice |
