Class 5

Question 1

Social cognition

Answer 1

processes by which people come to understand each other

Question 2

stereotyping

Answer 2

process by which people draw inferences about others based on their knowledge of the categories to which others belong

Question 3

self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 3

tendency for people to behave as they are expected to behave

Question 4

stereotype threat

Answer 4

fear of confirming the negative beliefs that others may hold

Question 5

perceptual confirmation

Answer 5

tendency for people to see what they expect to see

Question 6

subtyping

Answer 6

tendency for people who receive disconfirming evidence to modify their stereotypes rather than abandon them

Question 7

attribution

Answer 7

inference about the cause of a person’s behavior

Question 8

correspondence bias

Answer 8

tendency to make a dispositional attribution even when we should make a situational attribution

(fundamental observation error)

Question 9

actor-observer effect

Answer 9

tendency to make situational attributions for our own behaviors while making dispositional attributions for the identical behavior of others

Question 10

covariation model

Answer 10

consistency, consensuality, and distinctiveness of an action can tell us what kind of attribution to make

(dispositional v situational attributions)

Question 11

fun facts:

situational causes of behavior are often invisible

situational attributions tend to be more complex than dispositional attributions

Answer 11

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Question 12

fun facts about levels of discrimination
individual, institutional, cultural

racism: preejudice and discrimination based on a person’s racial background. institutional or cultural practices that promote the domination of one reacial group over another

interpretation: think booze w nun and rugby player
female quicker to be seen as sad
tendency to overestimate black man relative to white

Answer 12

some more fun:

primed with subliminal african american stereotype made subject more hostile

activates sterotype even if you dont believe it

Question 13

social categorization

Answer 13

classify people into social categories
exaggerated differences between groups
ingroups v outgroups (favoritism, holitstic processing and memory)

Question 14

social identity theory

Answer 14

we derive part of our self esteem from the esteem of our groups