Prejudice Flashcards
A preconceived negative
judgment of a group and its
individual members.
prejudice:
A belief about the personal
attributes of a group of people.
Stereotypes are sometimes
overgeneralized, inaccurate,
and resistant to new information
(and sometimes accurate).
stereotype
Unjustified negative behavior
toward a group or its members.
discrimination
(1) An individual’s prejudicial
attitudes and discriminatory
behavior toward people of a
given race, or (2) institutional
practices (even if not motivated
by prejudice) that subordinate
people of a given race.
racism
(1) An individual’s prejudicial
attitudes and discriminatory
behavior toward people of a
given sex, or (2) institutional
practices (even if not motivated
by prejudice) that subordinate
people of a given sex.
sexism
A motivation to have one’s
group dominates other social
groups.
social dominance
orientation
Believing in the superiority of
one’s own ethnic and cultural
group, and having a
corresponding disdain for all
other groups.
ethnocentric
A personality that is disposed to
favor obedience to authority
and intolerance of outgroups
and those lower in status.
authoritarian personality
The theory that prejudice
arises from competition
between groups for scarce
resources.
realistic group
conflict theory
The “we” aspect of our
self-concept; the part of
our answer to “Who am I?”
that comes from our group
memberships.
social identity
“Us”—a group of people who
share a sense of belonging, a
a feeling of common identity.
ingroup
“Them”—a group that people
perceive as distinctively
different from or apart from
their ingroup.
outgroup
The tendency to favor one’s
own group.
ingroup bias
people’s
self-protective emotional and
cognitive responses (including
adhering more strongly to their
cultural worldviews and
prejudices) when confronted
with reminders of their mortality.
terror management
Perception of outgroup
members as more similar to one
another than are ingroup
members. Thus “they are alike;
we are diverse.”
outgroup homogeneity
effect
The tendency for people to
more accurately recognize faces
of their own race.
own-race bias/cross-race effect
A person’s expectation of being
victimized by prejudice or
discrimination.
stigma consciousness
Explaining away outgroup
members’ positive behaviors;
also attributing negative
behaviors to their dispositions
group-serving bias
The tendency of people to
believe that the world is just
and that people therefore get
what they deserve and deserve
what they get.
just-world phenomenon
A disruptive concern, when
facing a negative stereotype,
that one will be evaluated
based on a negative stereotype.
stereotype threat
