Chapter 4: The prejudiced personality: Are some people more likely to feel prejudice?

Question 1

authoritarianism

Answer 1

rigid personality characterized by categorical thinking, submissiveness to authority, and adherence to middle class values. these individuals tend to dislike anyone who is different from themselves and thus tend to have stereotypes and prejudice toward many groupts

Question 2

committed religiosity

Answer 2

religious viewpoint that allows an individual to hold a wide range of categories about which one can evaluate the world, and one’s ideas about the world and others tends to be more complex and open minded.

Question 3

consensual religiosity

Answer 3

religious viewpoint in which the individuals tends to interpret religion more literally and concretely, make more generalizations about religion, and be unreceptive to different ideas and opinions

Question 4

extrinsic religious orientation

Answer 4

describes an individual who uses religion for their own purposes, and attends church infreqently, and tends to be more prejudiced toward others

Question 5

intrinsic religious orientation

Answer 5

a person who has internalized their religious values and lives according to these beliefs, attends church regularly, and tends to be more egalitarian.

Question 6

need for cognition

Answer 6

an individual difference variable that describes the dispositional motivation of an individual to think about the world; the higher this motivation is, the more the individual enjoys thinking about seeking and pondering problems and information about the world

Question 7

need for cognitive closure

Answer 7

an individual difference variable in which persons who have this motivation tend to need an answer, any answer, on a given topic, so that they may arrive at a conclusion even if the conclusion is incorrect

Question 8

need for structure

Answer 8

an individual difference variable in which hose who have a high degree of this motivation tend to desire clear, certain, or unambiguous knowledge(structure) about a topic

Question 9

right wing authoritarianism

Answer 9

personality style in which the individual tends to be politically conservative, more punative toward criminals, more likely to endorse orthodox religious vies, and very prejudiced toward outgroups

Question 10

social dominance orientation

Answer 10

an attitude towrad intergroup relations in which the individual believecs that groups are different, that they are organized hierarchically in society, and that some groups naturally are higher in status than others. these indivudals strongly prefer and seek to maintain the inequality among groups