chapter 11

Question 1

Stereotypes

Answer 1

The belief and cognitive thoughts

Question 2

Prejudice

Answer 2

attitude

Question 3

Discrimination

Answer 3

Acts and behavior

Question 4

What are the 3 different perspectives explaining why we stereotype?

Answer 4

-Economic competition
Limited economic sources
-Motivational
When we discriminate, can boost our ingroup status
-Convenient
Easy for us to respond

Question 5

What is the difference between modern and traditional racism?

Answer 5

-Traditional
-Prejudice against a racial group that is explicitly acknowledged and expressed by the individuals
-Obvious indicators
-Modem
-Prejudice against a racial group that exists even though explicit racist beliefs are rejected
-Difficult to get rid of
-People can hide it
-Implicit

Question 6

How can we measure modern/implicit prejudice?

Answer 6

-Can’t measure because we can hide
-Iap
-Can tell us that implicit prejudice, only predict implicit behavior and attitude

Question 7

Realistic Group Conflict Theory

Answer 7

When groups compete for limited resources, these groups experience conflict, prejudice, and discrimination

Question 8

What successfully helped researchers “reverse” the intergroup conflict between the boys in the Robbers Cave study?

Answer 8

-Used the common goal
-Superordinate goal
-goals that are worth completing but require two or more social groups to cooperatively achieve.

Question 9

What is the relationship between self-esteem and discrimination?

Answer 9

When ingroup succeed, we feel better and have higher self esteem

Question 10

Social Identity Theory

Answer 10

-A person’s self-concept and self-esteem are derived from:
1. Personal identity
2. and ingroup status/accomplishments.
-People are motivated to view their ingroup favorably because this enhances self-concept and self-esteem.

Question 11

Minimal Group Paradigm

Answer 11

-they found that people tended to prefer their ingroup, even when these group distinctions were meaningless.
-We favor our ingroup compared to outgroup
-People automatically have favorites and like the other group less

Question 12

What is the benefit of stereotyping?

Answer 12

-It can lead to a schema
-Saves our time and resources
-Does not give us immediately negative consequences
-Stereotyping is always negative

Question 13

Do we make situational or dispositional attributions for stereotype-consistent behavior?

Answer 13

-Stereotyping is dispositional
We believe that the person is similar to the rest of the group
-Study:
When white push black, just playing
When black push white, aggressive

Question 14

Outgroup Homogeneity

Answer 14

-The tendency to assume that members of outgroups are “all alike,” whereas members of ingroups have differences

Question 15

Illusory Correlation

Answer 15

-An incorrect belief that two things are related when they are in fact not related

Question 16

What is the Police Officer’s Dilemma study?

Answer 16

-Shoot whoever has the weapon in their hand
-Results:
Accidentally shoot the unarmed black,
But do not shoot the armed white

Question 17

Subtyping

Answer 17

-explaining away exceptions to a given stereotype by creating a subcategory of the stereotyped group that can be expected to be different from the group as a whole
-They are all the same, except this one person

Question 18

Stereotype threat

Answer 18

-Fear of confirming a stereotype that others have about a group to which they belong
- You are worried that you are going to confirm the stereotype, you will have to note people have a stereotype against you
-It will hurt your performance