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14 Cards in this Set
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Stereotype |
generalized impressions based on social categories ie. age, race, beliefs |
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Prejudice |
Negative stereotypical attitudes toward all members of a group |
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Contributors to Stereotypes and Prejudice |
Categorize ourselves based on similarities to some people and differences to others Early humans needed to be able to distinguish friends from foe |
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Realistic Conflict Theory |
Amount of actual conflict between groups determines the amount of prejudice between groups Inner group conflicts arise because of conflicting goals and competition of limited resources |
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Social Identity Theory |
Emphasizes social cognitive factors in the onset of prejudice |
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Social Categorization |
Affiliates w/ a group as a way of figuring out how to act and react in the world |
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Social Identity |
Person forms an identity within a group |
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Social Comparison |
Group member compares their group with another, and looks as themselves as a superior in some way |
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Social Cognition Attributions |
Casual explanations for behaviour |
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Dispositional and Situational Attributions |
Internal Attribution is behaviour caused because of the person and External Attribution is behaviour is caused by the situation |
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Fundamental Attribution Error |
tendency to use dispositional attributions to explain the behaviour of others |
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Actor-Observer Effect |
Tend to make situational attributions about our own behaviour and personal attributions about the behaviour of others |
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Exceptions to Actor-Observer Effect |
Dispositional: when most people would behave in the same way and when we have details about the situation Situational: When our behaviour is positive |
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Self-Serving Bias |
Tend to attribute our own successes to dispositional causes and our failures to situational causes |
