Chapter 5: Perceiving Groups Flashcards
discrimination
Any positive or negative behavior directed towards a social and its social members.
prejudice
A positive or negative evaluation of a social group and it’s members
stereotypes
A mental representation or impression of a social group that people form by associating particular characteristics and emotions with the group
social group
Two or more people who share some common characteristic that is socially meaningful for themselves or for others.
social categorization
The process of identifying individual people as members of a social group because they share certain features that are typical of the group.
authoritarian personality
Based on Freudian ideas, people who are prejudiced because they cannot accept their own hostility, believe uncritically in the legitimacy of authority, and see their own inadequacies in others.
classical conditioning
A form of learning in which a previously neutral stimulus when paired with a stimulus that elicits or an emotion or another response, itself comes to generate that response.
illusory correlation
A perceived association between two characteristics that are not actually related.
social norms
Generally accepted ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving that people in a group agree on and endorse as right and proper.
implicit measures
Alternatives to self-report measures, such as priming measures or the IAT, which are based on difficult-to-control aspect of people’s performance, such as their response speed or accuracy.
contact hypothesis
The theory that certain types of direct contact between members of hostile groups will reduce stereotyping and prejudice
subtype
A narrower and more specific social group, such as housewife or feminist, that is included within a broad social group, like women.
