chapter 5: old fashioned and contemporary forms of prejudice

Question 1

Answer:

why is there a discrepancy between peoples claims of being non prejudice and their behaviors

2 points

Answer 1

• changes in prejudice since World War II
• learning prejudiced beliefs through socialization

Question 2

What is:

Jim Crow/ old fashioned racism (pre WWII)

3 points

Answer 2

• whites belief that they were superior
• firm belief in segregation
• use of laws and government to uphold segregation

Question 3

List:

Post WWII events that changed racism

5 points

Answer 3

anti-rascim messages as anti-Nazi propaganda

Truman desegregated the military and calls for more equal rights

Cold War made the us question the limiting of civil liberties for all its citizens

brown v board of education and civil rights act of 1964

people growing up amid these changes

Question 4

define:

implicit prejudice

Answer 4

prejudices people are not aware of having but affect emotional responses to behavior toward minority group

Question 5

List:

parts of Attitude

3 points (abc)

Answer 5

affect/emotion
behavior
cognition

Question 6

List:

New prejudice forms reflected in beliefs

3 points

Answer 6

• discrimination no longer exists because laws have dealt with it
• minority groups should stop complaining and get on with life
• if minority members can’t achieve as much as whites its their own problem

Question 7

List:

characteristics of implicit prejudices

3 points

Answer 7

• automatically activated
• difficult to control
• can lead to biased evaluations and behaviors even if the person had no intention of doing so

Question 8

List:

ways to replace negative associations with positive associations

5 points

Answer 8

exposure to positive aspects of outgroup such as admired members of the group and positively valued aspects of the groups culture

recognizing when one has acted on the basis of stereotypic beliefs and avoiding such behaviors in future

think of members of outgrips as individuals rather than group membership

try to see world from perspective of outgroup

interact with members of ones own group who have positive attitude toward outgroup

Question 9

define:

explicit prejudice

3 points

Answer 9

• intergroup stereotypes and attitude people intentionally retrieve from memory
• reflected beliefs that people are willing to personally endorse
• leads to deliberate intentional behavior

Question 10

define:

modern-symbolic prejudice theory

Answer 10

set of beliefs about black people as an abstract group that portray them as morally inferior to white people. As in black people violate “traditional” white American values

Question 11

List:

“traditional” white American values

2 points

Answer 11

• hard work
• self reliance

Question 12

old fashioned prejudice

3 points

Answer 12

• based on belief in the biological inferiority of Black people
• believe the attendant stereotypes of low intelligence laziness
• believe in state sanctioned discrimination

Question 13

List:

Characteristics modern-symbolic prejudice theory

5 points

Answer 13

• believe that racial prejudice and discrimination no longer exists
• any remaining black-white difference in economic outcomes result from Black peoples lack of motivation and hard work
• bc black people are unwilling to work to get what they want their continuing anger over inequality is unjustified
• rather than working to get ahead black people seek special favors
• relative to white people, black people have been getting more than they deserve economically

Question 14

List:

emotions of modern-symbolic prejudice

4 points

Answer 14

• anxiety
• dislike
• resentment
• not necessarily hostility

Question 15

define:

egalitarianism

Answer 15

belief that all people are equal and should be treated identically

Question 16

equality of opportunity:

Answer 16

principle that everyone should have an equal, fair chance at success in life and that one function of government is to ensure such equality

Question 17

Define:

equality of outcome

Answer 17

belief that government should ensure that everyone regardless of their personal resources should receive equal (or reasonable) share of society resources

Question 18

define:

group self interest

Answer 18

belief that social programs designed to help minorities, will unfairly deprive White people as a group opportunities for jobs, advancement etc

Question 19

List:

Psychological bases of modern-symbolic prejudice

5 points

Answer 19

• emotions
• Belief in white values
• egalitarianism
• group self interest
• little personal knowlege

Question 20

define:

Ambivalent prejudice

Answer 20

people hold positive and negative stereotypes about members of other groups

Question 21

what type of attitude causes ambivalent prejudice

Answer 21

inconsistent attitudes and the awareness of such create psychological conflict

Question 22

2 sets of American attitudes related to ambivalent prejudice

Answer 22

individualism -personal responsibility
Egalitarianism

Question 23

define:

response amplification

Answer 23

behavior toward stigmatized person that is more extreme than non-stigmatized yet similar person in same type of situation

situational cues determine direction of response

Question 24

define:

hostile prejudice

Answer 24

traditional forms of prejudice expressed as negative beliefs about and negative emotional responses to outgroups

Question 25

define

benevolent prejudice

Answer 25

positive beliefs and emotional responses to outgroups can have negative consequences to outgroups