CH11 - Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination

Question 1

What are stereotypes?

Answer 1

generalization about group that are often applied to ind group members

Question 2

What concept has the following definition?

positive/negative attitude + emotional response to members of a group

Answer 2

Prejudice

Question 3

What is the definition of discrimination?

Answer 3

(un)favorable treatment of an ind because of the person’s membership in a specific group

Question 4

What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 4

Prejudice is more in terms of judging, whereas discrimination is behavior-based

Question 5

What concept has the following definition?

consciously holding egalitarian attitudes while nonconsciously having negative attitudes + exhibiting more subtle forms of prejudices

Answer 5

Modern racism

Question 6

What is benevolent racism/sexism?

Answer 6

consciously holding egalitarian attitudes while nonconsciously having negative attitudes + exhibiting more subtle forms of prejudices

“some of my friends are —”

Question 7

How is an implicit association test conducted?

Answer 7

Measures non-conscious attitudes by comparing reaction times when out-group pic/words in pos/neg categories

Question 8

What concept has the following definition?

priming procedure designed to asses people’s implicit associations to different stimuli, including their asso to various ethnic, racial, occupational and lifestyle groups

Answer 8

🡪Affect misattribution procedure

Question 9

What theory describes that group conflict or prejudice is likely to arise over competition between groups for limited resources?

Answer 9

Realistic group conflict theory

Question 10

What is the minimal group paradigm?

Answer 10

an experimental paradigm in which researcher’s create groups based on arbitrary and seemingly meaningless criteria and then examine how the members of these minimal groups are inclined to behave towards one another

Question 11

What is the definition of ‘basking in reflected glory’?

Answer 11

Taking pride in the accomplishments of other people in one’s group, such as when sports fans identify with a winning team.

Question 12

How are stereotypes maintained?

Answer 12

Through self-fulfilling prophecies

Question 13

Which concept has the following definition?

attributing false characteristics or tendencies to groups, creating illusory correlations

Answer 13

Paired distinctiveness

Question 14

What is subtyping?

Answer 14

explaining away exceptions to a given stereotype by creating a subcategory of the stereotyped group that can be expected to differ from group as a whole

Question 15

What is the outgroup homogenous effect?

Answer 15

It’s assuming outgroups are more homogenous than ingroups

Question 16

Which concept has the following definition?

the tendency for ppl to be better able to recognize + distinguish faces from their own race than from other races.

Answer 16

Own-race identification bias

Question 17

What’s a stereotype threat?

Answer 17

fear that member of stigmatized group will confirm other’s stereotypes so performance is impaired

Question 18

What is a way of reducing steoreotypes?

Answer 18

🡪Contact hypothesis: contact between members of diff groups can reduce intergroup hostility – esp if 1-on-1 interactions between ind of equal status if encourages cooperative pursuit of superordinate goals