Chapter 9 (Prejudice) Flashcards
preconceived negative judgement of a group and its individual members
* an attitude
prejudice
a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people.
*overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new info
stereotype
unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members
discrimination
an individuals prejudicial attitude and discriminatory beh toward a given race
individual racism
institutional practices that subordinate people of a given race (even if not motivated by prejudice)
institutional racism
an individual’s prejudicial attitude and discriminatory behavior toward a given sex
individual sexism
institutional practices that subordinate (even if not motivated by prejudice) people of a given sex
institutional sexism
norms are
stereotypes are
n= prescriptive
s=descriptive
a motivation to have one’s group dominate other social groups
social dominance orientation
believing in the superiority of one’s own ethnic group and disdain for others
ethnocentric
a personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of out groups and those lower in status
authoritarian personality
prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce rescources
realistic group conflict theory
the “we” aspect of our self concept
social identity
“us” group of people who share a sense of belonging and common identity
ingroup
“them” group that people perceive as different from or apart from their ingroup
outgroup
the tendency to favor own group
ingroup bias
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
terror management theory
outgroup members are more similar to one another than are ingroup members
*we are more diverse
outgroup homogenity effect
people recognize faces of own race more
own race bias
expectation of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination
stigma consciousness
attribute our beh as external reasons
others as internal
fundamental attribution error
explaining away an outgroup member’s pos behaviors
attributing neg beh to their dispositions
and excuse beh in own group
group-serving bias
tendency of people to believe that he world is just and people get what they desver
just world phenomenon
accommodating individuals who deviate with one’s stereotype by thinking of them as exceptions to the rule
subtyping
accommodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by forming a new stereotype about the subset to the group
subgrouping
self-confirming that one will be judged based on neg stereotype
stereotype threat
