Chapter 11 Flashcards
Authoritarianism
The tendency to submit to those having greater authority and to denigrate those having less authority
Discrimination
Behaviors directed toward people on the basis of their group membership
Disidentify
To reduce in one’s mind the relevance of a particular domain (academic achievement) to one’s self-esteem
Ingroup bias
The tendency to benefit members of one’s own groups over members of other groups
Minimal intergroup paradigm
An experimental procedure in which short-term, arbitrary, artificial groups are created to explore the foundations of prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination
Perceived outgroup homogeneity
The phenomenon of overestimating the extent to which members within other groups are similar to each other
Prejudice
A generalized attitude toward members of a social group
Realistic group conflict theory
The proposal that intergroup conflict, and negative prejudices and stereotypes, emerge out of actual competition between groups for desired resources
Scapegoating
The process of blaming members of other groups for one’s frustrations and failures
Social dominance orientation
The extent to which a person desires that their own group dominate other groups and be socially and materially superior to them
Social identity
The beliefsand feelings we have toward the groups to which we see ourselves belonging
Stereotype
Generalized belief about members of social groups
Stereotype threat
The fear that one might confirm the negative stereotypes held by others about one’s group
Stereotyping
The process of categorizing an individual as a member of a particular group and then inferring that they posses the characteristics generally held by members of that group
