Chapter 18 - Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotyping Flashcards
Automatic
Automatic biases are unintended, immediate, and irresistible.
Aversive racism
Aversive racism is unexamined racial bias that the person does not intend and would reject, but that avoids inter-racial contact.
Blatant biases
Conscious beliefs, feelings, and behavior that people are perfectly willing to admit, are mostly hostile, and openly favor their own group.
Discrimination
Behavior that advantages or disadvantages people merely based on their group membership.
Implicit Association Test (IAT)
Measures relatively automatic biases that favor own group relative to other groups.
Model minority
A minority group whose members are perceived as achieving a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average.
Prejudice
An evaluation or emotion toward people merely based on their group membership.
Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)
Focuses on value conflicts but endorses respect for obedience and authority in the service of group conformity.
Self-categorization theory
Develops social identity theory’s point that people categorize themselves, along with each other into groups, favoring their own group.
Social dominance orientation (SDO)
Describes a belief that group hierarchies are inevitable in all societies and even good, to maintain order and stability.
Social identity theory
Notes that people categorize each other into groups, favoring their own group.
Stereotype Content Model
Shows that social groups are viewed according to their perceived warmth and competence.
Stereotypes
A belief that characterizes people based merely on their group membership.
Subtle biases
Automatic, ambiguous, and ambivalent, but real in their consequences.
