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19 Cards in this Set
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stereotype |
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing |
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prejudice |
evaluation of a social group and its members |
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discrimination |
behavior towards people based on their membership in a particular social group |
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racism |
discrimination practiced against people because of their perceived race |
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social group |
2 or more people that share some common characteristic that is meaningful for themselves or others |
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social categorization |
identifying people as part of a social group rather than as individuals |
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authoritarian personality |
based on Freudian ideas, people who are prejudiced because they cannot accept their own hostility, believe uncritically in the legitimacy of authority, and see their own inadequacies in others |
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classical (evaluative) conditioning |
when people pair repeated interactions with members of a group to characteristics about the whole group |
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Illusory correlation |
perceived association between two characteristics that are not actually related |
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social norms |
things society accepts as appropriate |
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implicit/explicit measures |
based on difficult-to-control aspects of performance |
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social roles |
a set of rights, duties, expectations, norms and behaviours that a person has to face and fulfill |
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facial electromyography (EMG) |
measures electrical activity in facial muscles that createexpressions such as smiles or frowns |
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individual stories |
exactly what it sounds like. used to turn the tide of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination |
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empathy |
understanding what it is like from someone else's perspective |
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Henderson-King and Nisbett (1996) |
white/black confederate - rude & hostile to experimenter/no negative interaction - participants interviewed different student for RA position - shorter interviews for Black confederates who were hostile - (single group member’s negative acts can activate thoughtsabout entire group) |
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bodenhausen et al. (1995) |
demonstrated that when people have recently thought about well-liked Blacks (such as Oprah Winfrey), their opinions on issues related to Blacks’ position in American society become more positive (salient outgroup exemplars) |
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Romer et al. (1998) |
Studies of Philadelphia and Los Angeles local TV news both found that in comparison to actual crime statistics, Blacks are overrepresented as crime suspects whereas Whites are underrepresented |
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Jane Elliot's blue/brown eyed experiment |
took kids and told them one eye color was better than the other and they believed it even when she flipped the scenario |
