Chapter 9 - Prejudice Flashcards
What is meant by prejudice, and how is that different from discrimination, and racism/sexism?
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What are “stereotypes?”
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What is discrimination?
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What is racism?
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What is sexism?
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How are racial attitudes changing over time?
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What are some of the more subtle forms of prejudice, and how is this evidenced in everyday life?
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What are some of the more subtle forms of prejudice, and how is this evidenced in everyday life?
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What is Automatic Racial Prejudice?
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Gender stereotypes?
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How have gender attitudes changed over time?
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Sexism?
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Gender Discrimination?
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LGBT Prejudice?
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What are the social sources of prejudice? (e.g., social inequalities, socialization, etc.)
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Social dominance orientation
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Ethnocentric
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Authoritarian personality
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What are the motivational sources of prejudice? (e.g, scapegoat, social identity, etc.)
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The scapegoat theory
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Social identity theory
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Realistic group conflict theory
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Social identity
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Ingroup
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Outgroup
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Ingroup Bias
The tendency to favor one’s own group
What is meant by “ingroup bias,” and does the research support this as a real affect on attitudes and behavior?
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Terror management?
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What are the cognitive sources of prejudice? (e.g., categorization, distinctiveness, attribution, etc.)
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What is categorization?
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What is distinctivenes?
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Outgroup homogeneity effect
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Own-race bias
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Own-age bias
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Distinctive events foster illusory correlations
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What is attribution?
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Group-serving bias
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What is the “just-world” phenomenon?
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What is “sub-typing?”
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What is “subgrouping?”
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What is the affect of sub-typing and subgrouping on stereotyping?
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Self-perpetuation Prejudgements?
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What is meant by a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” and how does that relate to discrimination?
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What is “stereotype threat?”
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What are some of the findings from Claude Steele’s research that shows affects of stereotype threat on performances and attitudes?
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How does stereotype threat undermine performance?
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How do stereotypes bias judgments of people?
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