Chapter 7 Flashcards
anti-bias education
aims to provide students with a heightened awareness of institutional racism and with the skills to reduce it within their sphere of influence
category constancy
an understanding that a person’s
membership in a social category, such as gender or race, does not change across time or as a matter of superficial changes in appearance
cognitive-developmental theories
children’s intergroup attitudes reflect their abilities to think about and understand the nature of social groups and intergroup relations
category preference
children select or prefer one group over another
desegregation
involves only a mixture of groups no longer formally separated
cooperative learning
group learning environments which implement the necessary contact conditions as part of the day-to-day educational process
developmental intergroup theory
the development of prejudice is a
byproduct of the normal process of cognitive development through which children come to understand the world they live in and the rules by which that world operates
essentialism
the belief that members of a category all have similar psychological characteristics and that these characteristics are unchanging
homosociality
the tendency to interact socially only with members of one’s own gender, occurs later in development
integration
desegregation where an effort is made to help the groups get along with each other and prevent stereotypes and prejudice from developing
multicultural education
based on the belief that inaccurate information about other groups leads to intergroup anxiety and the use of stereotypes
social learning theory
the development of prejudice is through watching or learning from others
