Chapter 9 - Prejudice

Question 1

What is meant by prejudice, and how is that different from discrimination, and racism/sexism?

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Question 2

What are “stereotypes?”

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Question 3

What is discrimination?

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Question 4

What is racism?

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Question 5

What is sexism?

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Question 6

How are racial attitudes changing over time?

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Question 7

What are some of the more subtle forms of prejudice, and how is this evidenced in everyday life?

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Question 8

What are some of the more subtle forms of prejudice, and how is this evidenced in everyday life?

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Question 9

What is Automatic Racial Prejudice?

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Question 10

Gender stereotypes?

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Question 11

How have gender attitudes changed over time?

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Question 12

Sexism?

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Question 13

Gender Discrimination?

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Question 14

LGBT Prejudice?

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Question 15

What are the social sources of prejudice? (e.g., social inequalities, socialization, etc.)

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Question 16

Social dominance orientation

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Question 17

Ethnocentric

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Question 18

Authoritarian personality

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Question 19

What are the motivational sources of prejudice? (e.g, scapegoat, social identity, etc.)

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Question 20

The scapegoat theory

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Question 21

Social identity theory

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Question 22

Realistic group conflict theory

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Question 23

Social identity

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Question 24

Ingroup

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Question 25

Outgroup

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Question 26

Ingroup Bias

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The tendency to favor one’s own group

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What is meant by “ingroup bias,” and does the research support this as a real affect on attitudes and behavior?

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Question 28

Terror management?

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Question 29

What are the cognitive sources of prejudice? (e.g., categorization, distinctiveness, attribution, etc.)

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Question 30

What is categorization?

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Question 31

What is distinctivenes?

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Question 32

Outgroup homogeneity effect

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Question 33

Own-race bias

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Question 34

Own-age bias

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Question 35

Distinctive events foster illusory correlations

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Question 36

What is attribution?

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Question 37

Group-serving bias

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Question 38

What is the “just-world” phenomenon?

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Question 39

What is “sub-typing?”

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Question 40

What is “subgrouping?”

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Question 41

What is the affect of sub-typing and subgrouping on stereotyping?

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Question 42

Self-perpetuation Prejudgements?

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Question 43

What is meant by a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” and how does that relate to discrimination?

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Question 44

What is “stereotype threat?”

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Question 45

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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Question 46

How does stereotype threat undermine performance?

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Question 47

How do stereotypes bias judgments of people?

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