Chapter 11 Flashcards
Illusory Correlation Bias
An exaggerated perception of a correlation between two variables. In intergroup relations, the perception that a behavior is more frequently displayed by a minority group, when the behavior is displayed equally by both groups, in proportional terms.
Dogmatism
The tendency for people to be able to tolerate mutually inconsistent beliefs by isolating them from each other in memory.
Right-Wing Authoritarianism
An individual differences variable characterized by authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression and conventionalism.
Social Dominance Orientation
An individual differences variable that measures people’s preference for hierarchy within any social system.
Realistic Group Conflict Theory
Theory of intergroup conflict that explains intergroup behavior with respects to the need to secure scarce resources.
Ethnocentrism
Preference for one’s own group, and features of one’s own group, over others.
Contact Hypthesis
Theory of prejudice reduction, which proposes that prejudice and conflict between groups can be reduced by bringing them together.
Subordinate Goal
A goal that two or more groups can aspire to but that can only be achieved by working together in cooperation.
Minimal Group Paradigm
Experimental manipulation that tests the effects of mere categorization on behavior.
Hostile Sexism
Traditionally sexist views of women that is characterized by the belief that they pose a threat to men’s position.
Benevolent Sexism
Apparently positive view of women in which they are seen as necessary for men’s happiness, and superior in a number of ways.
Ambivalent Sexism
Reconceptualization of sexism to take into account the face that sexism can include both positive and negative attitudes at the same time.
Moral Credentialing
Demonstrating one’s credentials often means that people will express more prejudice.
Modern Racism
Subtle and less aggressive form of prejudice based on race.
Aversive Racism
Inner conflict between egalitarian view and racist impulses can be aversive, such that people avoid contact with specific racial groups.
