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CH. 10 Prejudice Flashcards

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What is Prejudice?

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  • A preconceived judgment about a group & its individual members
  • can be positive or negative
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What are Stereotypes?

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  • Beliefs/personal attitudes about a group of people
  • They are overgeneralized/inaccurate
  • Descriptive= How people do behave
  • By-products of how we simplify our complex world
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What is the difference between Prejudice and Discrimination?

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  • Prejudice is negative attitude

- Discriminiation is negative behavior

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What is Racism?

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  • Individuals prejudicial attitudes about a certain race

- Or institutional practice that subordinate people of a given race

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What is Sexism?

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  • Individuals prejudicial attitudes about a certain sex

- Or institutional practice that subordinate people of a given sex

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What does it mean that both Racism and Sexism are institutional practices?

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-It’s present even when there is no prejudicial intent

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What is the Dual Attitude System?

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  • That we have implicit & explicit attitudes toward the same target
  • Conjured up via IAT Test
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What is every race like when looking at racial prejudice in the global context of it?

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-A minority

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What are Gender Stereotypes?

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-How men & women should behave

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What is the difference between Stereotypes and Prejudice?

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  • Stereotypes are beliefs

- Prejudice is attitudes

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What is biased when race does not bias perception?

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-Reaction

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What are norms?

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  • Prescriptive

- Suggests how other people should behave

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What are the 2 conclusions of Gender Stereotypes?

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  • Strong gender types exist

- Members of the stereotyped group accept them

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What is the percentage of school students reporting harassment bc they’re gay?

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80%

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What is the principle of social inequalities?

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-Unequal status breeds prejudice

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What is Social Dominance Orientation?

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  • The motivation to have one’s group dominate other social groups
  • View people in term’s of hierarchies
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What is Enthocintricity?

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-Believing that your cultural group is better & the others suck

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What are the tendencies that Ethnocentric people share?

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  • Intolerance for weakness
  • Punitive attitude
  • Submissive respect for their group authorities
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What is Authoritarian Personality?

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-Personality where you are predisposed to favor obedience to authority & intolerant to outgroups in lower status

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What influences children’s prejudices?

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-Family, culture, & media images

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What are people with an authoritarian personality more likely to engage in?

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-Prejudicial attitudes and stereotyping

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What is Scapegoating?

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-When we are prevented from reaching a goal we become hostile so we display aggression when we can’t pinpoint the source

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What does a competition between 2 groups fuel?

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  • Prejudice & competition is the source of frustration when one group can’t reach their goal
  • AKA Realistic Group Conflict Theory
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What are the sources of prejudice?

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  • Family socialization
  • Family attitudes
  • Family values
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What is Social Identity?

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  • The “We” aspect of our self-concept

- The answer of who am I comes also comes from our group memberships

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What do we do in part of Social Identity theory?

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  • We categorize= labeling other people
  • We identify=associating ourselves w/ certain groups= ingroups
  • We compare=We contrast our groups to out-groups and think we’re better
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What includes a group definition of who you are?

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  • Gender
  • Marital status
  • Religion
  • Race
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What does being formed in groups promote?

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-ingroup bias

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What is the need for status?

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-Psychological benefit of prejudice that can come from authentic pride or derogating other groups

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What is Ingroup?

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-A group do people who share a sense of belonging/feeling a common identity that inspires them to favor themselves

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What is an Outgroup?

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-Large amount of people that perceive themselves as different/apart from the ingroup

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When is automatic prejudice reduced?

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-When people’s motivation is internal rather than external

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What is ingroup bias?

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-Thinking your group is better than the outgroup

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What do we need to feel a sense of Superiority?

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  • Status
  • Belonging
  • Self-Regard
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What is Outgroup Homogeneity effect?

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-Seeing outgroup members as similar instead of diverse

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Where does Prejudice and Stereotyped beliefs come from?

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-They are a natural thinking process in most humans

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Why do we classify people into different groups?

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  • Speedy judgments
  • Simplifying
  • Predicting
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What is Own-race bias?

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  • The tendency to accurately identify people of their own race
  • AKA cross-race effect or other race effect
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When do we rely on stereotypes?

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-When we’re tired, pressed for time, and preoccupied

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When do we exhibit Group-serving bias?

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-To justify to negative behavior or an individual within our ingroup

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What is the Just-World Phenomenon?

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-The belief that the world is just and that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get

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What is the role of Prejudgments?

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-They guide our memories and attention

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What is the basis for Prejudice?

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-Prejudgements

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What is Subgrouping?

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  • A place for people who don’t fit into the broader stereotype
  • Forming a subset of a larger group
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What is Subtyping?

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-Seeing people who deviate away from stereotypes as exceptions=helps maintain the stereotype

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What are the 2 types of prejudice/effects of victimization?

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  • Blaming yourself

- Blaming external causes

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What is Own-race bias?

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-Thinking that an outgroup looks similar when your group looks similar too

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What is Stereotype Threat?

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-Self-confirming apprehension (disruptive concern) that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype

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What do our own stereotypes bias?

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-Our judgments

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How do we evaluate individuals vs the group they compose?

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-We evaluate them more positively

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