Chapter 13 Flashcards
Ethnocentrism
The belief that one’s own ethnic group, nation, or religion is superior to all others
Normative Conformity
The tendency to go along with the group in order to fulfill the group’s expectations and gain acceptance
Institutional Discrimination
Practices that discriminate, legally or illegally, against a minority group by virtue of its ethnicity, gender, culture, age, sexual orientation, or other target of societal or company prejudice
Implicit Association Test (IAT)
A test that measures the speed with which people can pair a target face (e.g., Black or White, old or young, Asian or White) with positive or negative stimuli (e.g., the words honest or evil) reflecting unconscious (implicit) prejudices
Stereotype
A generalization about a group of people in which certain traits are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members
Discrimination
Unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group solely because of his or her membership in that group
Social Identity Threat
The threat elicited when people perceive that others are evaluating them as a member of their group instead of as an individual
Jigsaw Classroom
A classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice and raise the self-esteem of children by placing them in small, multiethnic groups and making each child dependent on the other children in the group to learn the course material
Interdependence
The situation that exists when two or more groups need to depend on one another to accomplish a goal that is important to each of them
JIGSAW CLASSROOM
Prejudice
A hostile or negative attitude toward people in a distinguishable group based solely on their membership in that group; it contains cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components
Blaming the Victim
The tendency to blame individuals (make dispositional attributions) for their victimization, typically motivated by a desire to see the world as a fair place
In-Group Bias
The tendency to favor members of one’s own group and give them special preference over people who belong to other groups; the group can be temporary and trivial as well as significant
Social Identity
The part of a person’s self-concept that is based on his or her identification with a nation, religious or political group, occupation, or other social affiliation
Out-group homogeneity
The perception that individuals in the out-group are more similar to each other (homogeneous) than they really are, as well as more similar than members of the in-group are
USC(similar) VS. UCLA (totally diverse)
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
An expectation of one’s own or another person’s behavior that comes true because of the tendency of the person holding it to act in ways that bring it about.
