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Stereotype

An oversimplified, generalised set of ideas that we have about others

Media

Means of communication - eg television, radio, newspapers

Practical implications

Suggestions about behaviour in the real world beyond the research study, based upon what psychologists have already discovered

Role model

Someone who a child looks up to and is likely to copy

Prejudice

A rigid set of attitudes or beliefs towards particular groups of people. These attitudes are usually negative, but not always

Discrimination

The way an individual behaves towards another person or group as a result of their prejudiced view

Authoritarian personality

A personality type that is prone to being prejudiced

F-scale

The questionnaire used by Adorno to measure personality characteristics

In-group

A group of people you believe you have something in common with

Out-group

A group of people whom you believe you have nothing in common with

Jigsaw method

The name given to the technique used by Aronson to reduce prejudice within a mixed-raced group of students

Expert groups

Another name for the jigsaw method - so called because each member becomes an expert on a particular topic, then passes on the knowledge

Contact

Seeing, speaking or writing to someone

Empathy

Being able to out yourself in someone else's position psychologically and understand how that person is feeling