Chapter 9 (Prejudice)

Question 1

preconceived negative judgement of a group and its individual members
* an attitude

Answer 1

prejudice

Question 2

a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people.
*overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new info

Answer 2

stereotype

Question 3

unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members

Answer 3

discrimination

Question 4

an individuals prejudicial attitude and discriminatory beh toward a given race

Answer 4

individual racism

Question 5

institutional practices that subordinate people of a given race (even if not motivated by prejudice)

Answer 5

institutional racism

Question 6

an individual’s prejudicial attitude and discriminatory behavior toward a given sex

Answer 6

individual sexism

Question 7

institutional practices that subordinate (even if not motivated by prejudice) people of a given sex

Answer 7

institutional sexism

Question 8

norms are

stereotypes are

Answer 8

n= prescriptive

s=descriptive

Question 9

a motivation to have one’s group dominate other social groups

Answer 9

social dominance orientation

Question 10

believing in the superiority of one’s own ethnic group and disdain for others

Answer 10

ethnocentric

Question 11

a personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of out groups and those lower in status

Answer 11

authoritarian personality

Question 12

prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce rescources

Answer 12

realistic group conflict theory

Question 13

the “we” aspect of our self concept

Answer 13

social identity

Question 14

“us” group of people who share a sense of belonging and common identity

Answer 14

ingroup

Question 15

“them” group that people perceive as different from or apart from their ingroup

Answer 15

outgroup

Question 16

the tendency to favor own group

Answer 16

ingroup bias

Question 17

people’s self protective emotional and cognitive responses including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews and prejudices when confronted with reminders of their mortality

Answer 17

terror management theory

Question 18

outgroup members are more similar to one another than are ingroup members
*we are more diverse

Answer 18

outgroup homogenity effect

Question 19

people recognize faces of own race more

Answer 19

own race bias

Question 20

expectation of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination

Answer 20

stigma consciousness

Question 21

attribute our beh as external reasons

others as internal

Answer 21

fundamental attribution error

Question 22

explaining away an outgroup member’s pos behaviors
attributing neg beh to their dispositions
and excuse beh in own group

Answer 22

group-serving bias

Question 23

tendency of people to believe that he world is just and people get what they desver

Answer 23

just world phenomenon

Question 24

accommodating individuals who deviate with one’s stereotype by thinking of them as exceptions to the rule

Answer 24

subtyping

Question 25

accommodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by forming a new stereotype about the subset to the group

Answer 25

subgrouping

Question 26

self-confirming that one will be judged based on neg stereotype

Answer 26

stereotype threat