Chapter 11: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Question 1

Stereotype

Answer 1

Cognitive representation or schema about a social group

Question 2

Prejudice

Answer 2

Negative feelings directed toward members of a group based solely upon group membership.

Question 3

Discrimination

Answer 3

Negative or harmful behaviors directed towards members of a group solely upon their group membership.

Question 4

Modern racism

Answer 4

A prejudice that is directed at other racial groups that exists alongside the rejection of explicitly racist beliefs.

Question 5

Racism is very hard to measure. True or False?

Answer 5

True. But there are scales that exist such as the modern racism scale.

Question 6

Implicit Association Test (IAT)

Answer 6

Used to assess implicit, unspoken, or unconscious beliefs, values, or attitudes regarding any number of issues including ethnic groups and gender.

Question 7

Why do we engage in stereotypes, discrimination, and prejudice?

Answer 7

1. Economic perspective
2. Motivational perspective
3. Cognitive perspective.

Question 8

The economic perspective includes the topic of Realists Group Conflict. What is this?

Answer 8

This explains that the use of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination are likely to arise between groups over competition for limited resources.

Question 9

What is the ingroup favoritism effect?

Answer 9

The tendency to discriminate in favor of ingroup over
outgroups

Question 10

What does the motivational perspective say about S, P, and D?

Answer 10

Humans have the tendency of categorizing people into ingroups (the group one identifies and belongs to) and outgroups (the group one does belong to or identifies with).

Question 11

What does the cognitive perspective say about S, P, and D?

Answer 11

S, P, and D are all about information processing. That stereotype knowledge has a long cognitive history and is likely to be automatic.

Question 12

What is attributional ambiguity?

Answer 12

Are the outcomes in a particular situation due to you or are they due to prejudice/discrimination?

Question 13

Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 13

People act toward members of a group in ways that encourage the behavior that they expect.

Question 14

Stereotype threat

Answer 14

People’s fear of confirming the stereotypes that others have regarding a group which they are a member of

Question 15

What is the contact theory?

Answer 15

Contact between hostile groups will reduce prejudice when certain conditions are met.