Ch 12 Flashcards
social inequality
defined in comparative or absolute terms; occurs when people from some social groups have vastly worse life outcomes than people from other groups.
contact hypothesis
physical contact with a member of a negatively stereotyped group lessens the negative beliefs and feelings we hold about the individual and improves our attitudes and feelings toward the group as a whole.
imagined intergroup contact
occurs when people mentally simulate contact - ideally imagining real-life, positive experience- with someone from another social group category.
stereotype inhibition
involves deliberate monitoring and suppressing of expressing one’s automatic prejudices.
stereotype substitution
the process of detecting, avoiding, and replacing one’s own stereotypes through self-instruction and practices
cross-categorization
the realization that you share a group membership with people from a disliked out-group.
cognitive empathy
refers to perspective taking or the act of imagining the circumstances and perspectives of someone else.
emotional empathy
involved trying to share another’s feeling or responding emotionally to the plight or circumstances of another person.
stereotype rebound
the idea that stereotype suppression is only effective in producing less prejudicial behavior until the suppression is stopped, then prejudices and stereotypes return.
