Chapter 3: Feeling versus thinking in the activation and application of stereotypes

Question 1

Attitude object

Answer 1

any idea, object, or person about which one forms an attitude

focus of our thinking = target

Question 2

aversive racism

Answer 2

a type of racism in which the individual believes they are nonprejudiced, but they still harbor negative feelings about the outgroup

Question 3

chronic outgroup affect

Answer 3

one’s stable feeling toward the outgroup

Question 4

disassociation model

Answer 4

no relationship between explicit measures of prejudice and the degree of implicit stereotyping in low-prejudice persons. Low Prejudice persons are able to inhibit their stereotypical thoughts soon after such thoughts are activated, resulting in no correlation between explicit measures of prejudice and measures of the automatic activation of stereotypes in low prejudice persons

Question 5

episodic outgroup affect

Answer 5

one’s affective reaction to a specific member of the outgroup

Question 6

explicit memory

Answer 6

conscious recollection of memories. all the episodic and general information that is in long term memory that is available for conscious recollection

Question 7

implicit memory

Answer 7

an unintentional, nonconscious form of memory. stimuli can be perceived without awareness, and this information can later influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

Question 8

implicit stereotyping

Answer 8

introspectively unidentified traces of past experience that influence perceptions of outgroup members. exposure to prior stereotype relevant information below the level of awareness can later influence one’s attitudes, feelings, and behavior toward the relevant outgroup.

Question 9

incidental affect

Answer 9

affect that arises in situations unrelated to the intergroup context

Question 10

integral affect

Answer 10

affect that originates within the intergroup situation and involves the stereotyped outgroup. this type of affect can also arise from merely thinking about the outgroup.

Question 11

stereotype suppression

Answer 11

the conscious effort to avoid thinking about stereotypes. results in stereotype rebound in some low prejudice persons

Question 12

subliminal

Answer 12

perception of a stimulus without conscious awareness of perceiving the stimulus

Question 13

incidental affect

Answer 13

individual response outside of inter- group context; unrelated feelings impact use of stereotyped thinking = priming

Question 14

integral affect

Answer 14

individual response in context of being ingroup with exposure (real or mental imaged) to a stereotyped outgroup.

Question 15

chronic outgroup affect

Answer 15

individuals should have a rather stable feeling towrad the outgroup as a whole

Question 16

episodic outgroup affect

Answer 16

an affective reaction within an interaction with a specific outgroup member