3. Social Mutation Flashcards

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Prejudice

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A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members

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Dual attitudes

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  • refer to the idea that an individual can have two different attitudes; (1) Implicit Attitude: refers to an intuitive response or gut
    reaction, and (2) Explicit Attitude: refers to a more deliberate,
    thought-out response
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Stereotypes

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social belief about the personal attributes of a group of people that supports the negative evaluations which marks prejudice

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Discrimination

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Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members

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Define Prejudice and Discrimination in terms of attitude and behavior

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If Prejudice is a negative attitude, discrimination on the other hand is a negative behavior

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Microaggression

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indirect actions, typically unintentional, that convey negative or discriminatory attitudes (e.g., avoiding sitting next to someone of another race)

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Subtle Racial Prejudice Types

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  • Microaggression
  • Bias
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Bias

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also appears in subtle forms, such as giving exaggerated praise to minorities to avoid seeming prejudiced or providing less critical feedback

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Automatic Prejudice

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set of unconscious, unintentional, and effortless attitudes or stereotypes, influenced by social and cultural factors

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Displays of Racial Prejudice and Discrimination

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➷ Employment discrimination
➷ Favoritism galore
➷ Interactions with police
➷ Patronizing behavior

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Gender Prejudice

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Also referred to as sexism, is explored through various dimensions, examining both the structural and individual biases against genders

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Two forms of sexism

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  • hostile sexism, which includes openly negative attitudes or actions towards a particular gender
  • benevolent sexism, which may appear positive but reinforces traditional gender roles
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Hostile Sexism

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Reflects overtly negative attitudes toward women, particulaly those who challenge traditional gender roles or strive for equality

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Benevolent Sexism

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subtler form of sexism that is characterized by attitudes that seem positive or protective but ultimately reinforce traditional gender roles and stereotypes

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Gender discrimination

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is discussed as a form of prejudice that involves unequal
treatment of individuals based on their gender

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Social Sources of prejudice

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interplay of different social institutions (social class, religion, politics, etc) in forming prejudice

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Social Inequalities

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Unequal status breeds prejudice; prejudice helps justify
the economic and social superiority of those who have
wealth and power

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Social Dominance Orientation

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A motivation to have one’s group dominate other social groups

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The Authoritarian Personality

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Personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower
in status

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T or F
Authoritarian Personality doesn’t co-occurs with prejudiced
attitudes

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False, it does

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The Scapegoat Theory

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The tendency to blame someone else for one’s own problems

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Social Identity Theory

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Humans are naturally social, evolved to survive and thrive in groups

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Ingroup Bias

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Group identities define who we are and who we aren’t,
creating an “us vs. them” mindset

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Need For Status, Self-Regard, And Belonging

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To perceive ourselves as having status, we need people below us. Thus, one psychological benefit of prejudice, or of any status system, is a feeling of superiority

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Terror Management Theory
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.
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Spontaneous Categorization
tendency to classify people highlights our brain’s instinct to create distinct groups, even when there are variations
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Output homogeneity effect
perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. Thus “they are alike; we are diverse
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Own-race bias
tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race
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Own-age bias
tendency for both children and older adults to more accurately identify faces from their own ace groups
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Stigma consciousness
person’s expectations of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination
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Vivid Cases
Refer to instances that stand out due to their striking, unusual, or emotionally impactful nature
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availability heuristic
where people judge the frequency or likelihood of events based on how easily examples come to mind
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Distinctive Events Foster Illusory Correlations
Tendency for people to perceive a relationship between two unusual or memorable events, even if no actual association exists
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Illusory correlations
occur when individuals overestimate the frequency or significance of co-occurrences between rare or notable events
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Attribution Theory
explores how people explain the behavior of themselves and others, categorizing explanations as either; Dispositional attribution, Situational attribution, Group-Serving Bias
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Dispositional attribution
Attributing behavior to internal traits or characteristics (e.g., personality
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Situational attribution
Attributing behavior to external circumstances or environmental factors
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Group-Serving Bias
refers to a tendency to favor one's own group when making attributions for behavior or events
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The Just-World Phenomenon
where people tend to believe that the world is inherently fair and that people get what they deserve
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Self-Perpetuating Prejudgments
- Subtyping - Subgrouping
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Subtyping
Accommodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by thinking of them as “exceptions to the rule
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Subgrouping
Accommodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group
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Stereotype Threat
A self-confirming apprehension that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
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Stereotype threat situations have immediate effects...
performance deficits and disidentification