ch: 11: stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination

Question 1

define prejudice

Answer 1

a negative attitude toward a group and its members

Question 2

define stereotype

Answer 2

belief that certain attributes are characteristics of members of a particular group

Question 3

define discrimination

Answer 3

shitty treatment of people based on what kind of group their in

Question 4

what are some examples of intergroup bias

Answer 4

• heather heyer (charlottesville car attack)
• breonna taylor (shot in her home when police were looking for her boyfriend)
• george floyd

Question 5

define ambivalent sexism

Answer 5

sexism that contains both positive and negative views of women

Question 6

benevolent sexism

Answer 6

The “Knight and Shining Armour” basically saying women should conform to traditional gender roles or there will be punishments

Question 7

hostile sexism

Answer 7

negative feelings toward women

Question 8

define implicit prejudice

Answer 8

prejudice people are unable to report

Question 9

why does perceived economics partly explain prejudice?

Answer 9

when people feel insecure economically, they’re more likely to discriminate against others

Question 10

define ethnocentrism

Answer 10

judging another persons culture from the POV of ones own culture

Question 11

define realistic group conflict theory

Answer 11

limited resources lead to conflict between groups and result in increased prejudice and discrimination

Question 12

in the Hovland and sears study, what happended as cotton decreased?

Answer 12

as cotton decreased, the number of lynchings increased because the farmers got frustrated, they took it out on African Americans.

Question 13

what happened in the Robbers and Cave study?

Answer 13

wanted to introduce competition to to two groups of boys to see if it would produce prejudice sand discrimination = in the end they became friends

Question 14

social identity theory

Answer 14

belonging to an INGROUP or an OUTGROUP (being a stfx student = ingroup)

Question 15

explain the two step model of cognitive processing

Answer 15

It involves automatic and controlled processing.
Automatic: brings up the info (about stereotypes)
Controlled: chooses to give attention to it or ignore the info

Question 16

what is a controversial assessment to test automatic prejudice?

Answer 16

the iat test. because, it measures differences and it’s inaccurate

Question 17

whats a less controversial approach to test automatic prejudice?

Answer 17

Josh Correll’s study: Video game with white and black men holding threatening or non- threatening objects

Question 18

does negative feedback activate negative stereotypes?

Answer 18

Yes, Sinclair & Kunda’s studies looked at white and black managers, male and females profs and managers.
Results showed that: positive feedback meant people would suppress negativity and negative feedback showed higher negativity towards black managers and mostly female managers and profs.

Question 19

define subtyping

Answer 19

creating a different category of just stereotyped people that is odd from the whole group. (example: i am not racist i love michael b. jordan)

Question 20

what was Kunda & Olsens study on subtyping about?

Answer 20

P’s were given a description of a gay man but only told half of the P’s that he was also a bank accountant.
The half that didn’t know the bank accountant part assumed he was more promiscuous and the half that did know assumed he was less promiscuous.

Question 21

define stereotype threat

Answer 21

self-evaluative concern that one is at risk of confirming a negative stereotype.

Question 22

what is an example of stereotype threat

Answer 22

a woman might hear” i heard women aren’t as smart as men” however, even though she disagrees with it, she might start to believe it.

Question 23

superordinate g o a l

Answer 23

a goal that two groups want but can’t get without the help of each other

Question 24

contact hypothesis

Answer 24

becoming friends with an outgroup member might make your ingroup like that outgroup more because they trust your judgement on good people