4. Stereotypes Flashcards
1
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What is social categorisation?
A
- process of assigning people to groups based on social categories
2
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What is a stereotype?
A
collection of traits that society associates with a particular social group
3
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What is prejudice?
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an attitude (usually negative) held towards a social group or its members
4
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What is discrimination?
A
negative behaviours towards a person because of the group they belong to
5
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Why do we socially categorise?
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- to understand: helps us with person perception
- adaptive for survival: allows us to identify members of groups that are/aren’t allied with our own
6
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What does ingroup and outgroup mean?
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ingroup = group you identify with
outgroup = groups you don’t identify with
7
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How are stereotypes formed?
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- a social construct that are learnt from peers, parents, media etc
8
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How does the stereotype content model explain how stereotypes were originally formed?
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- social explanation
- stereotypes are classified among 2 dimensions: warmth and competence
- warmth is linked to competition for resources
- competence is linked to the groups status in society
9
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What is illusionary correlation?
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- when two ‘statistically infrequent’ events are paired, the correlation between the two is overestimated due to their distinctiveness
10
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What is stereotype activation?
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- the degree to which a stereotype is accessible in the mind
- forefront = more likely to apply
11
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Why do people stereotype?
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- act as an ‘energy saving device’
- simplifies information processing and reduces cognitive load
- may also serve as a justification function: allows us to justify inequality
12
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What is stereotype threat?
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- the concern experienced by a person when there is a possibility that they may act in a way consistent with negative stereotypes
13
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What are the consequences of stereotype threat?
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- affects performance on stereotype-relevant tasks
- affects learning on stereotype-relevant activities and tasks
