Factors affecting prejudice

Question 1

What is the situational factor which influences prejudice

Answer 1

Social Norms

Question 2

Social norms are

Answer 2

An agreed or accepted way of behaving in society

Question 3

How do social norms cause prejudice

Answer 3

If the social norms make racism/sexism etc acceptable it increases that behaviour

Question 4

Agreeableness from the Big 5 is defined as

Answer 4

The measure of ones trusting and helpful nature.

Question 5

What is the relationship between Agreeableness and Prejudice

Answer 5

If someone is high in agreeableness they are more likely to be prejudiced.

Question 6

What is openness to experience?

Answer 6

receptivity to new ideas and new experiences

Question 7

Conscientiousness is?

Answer 7

The tendency to be organised, dependable and somewhat rigid or inflexible

Question 8

What do we expect about conscientiousness and prejudice?

Answer 8

If someone is high in conscientiousness they are more likely to be prejudiced.

Question 9

What do we expect about RWA/Authoritarian personality and prejudice?

Answer 9

If someone is low in Right Wing Authority they are more likely to be prejudice.

Question 10

What is the relationship between SDO and prejudice?

Answer 10

If someone is low in Social Dominance Orientation they are less likely to be prejudice.

Question 11

Someone with an Authoritarian personality is more likely to be prejudice because

Answer 11

They are hostile to those they see as inferior/don’t fit their conventional beliefs and might see the world as us and them

Question 12

What is Social Dominance Oritentation?

Answer 12

People who believe in hierarchies in society and are competitive to be ahead of others and see those below them as competition

Question 13

What is culture?

Answer 13

The norms shared by a group of people from a similar demographic background e.g. nationality

Question 14

What is a collectivist culture?

Answer 14

A culture which puts the group wellbeing above individual wellbeing

Question 15

What is an individualistic culture?

Answer 15

A culture which puts the individual rights and wellbeing above the group

Question 16

Collectivist cultures are more prejudice than individualistic cultures towards outgroups.

Answer 16

True- as those who are different are disliked as they don’t fit the good of the group

Question 17

What is an assimilative society?

Answer 17

A culture which thinks cultural differences between its people should be minimised to cause cohesion i.e. the minority should change to be like the majority

Question 18

What is a multi-cultural culture?

Answer 18

A culture which thinks differences between cultures within itself should be celebrated i.e. the minority doesn’t need to change

Question 19

What is an assimilative culture?

Answer 19

A culture which thinks cultural differences between its people should be minimised to cause cohesion i.e. the minority should change to be like the majority

Question 20

Which culture would you expect to see more prejudice in?

Answer 20

Assimilative culture- because those who are different are looked down on

Question 21

What are the results of Cohrs about prejudice and personality?

Answer 21

Openness negatively correlates with prejudice. RWA positively correlates with prejudice. SDO positively correlates with prejudice

Question 22

What is an issue with using questionnaires to study personality?

Answer 22

They suffer from social desirability so people might lie to give different answers lowering validity

Question 23

What did Lippa and Arad find?

Answer 23

Authoritarianism correlated strongly with negative attitudes toward homosexuality & SDO with prejudice attitudes towards gender inequality

Question 24

What did Guimond find?

Answer 24

Multicultural socieites were less prejudice than assimilative ones

Question 25

What did Fujimoto find?

Answer 25

Collectivist cultures were more prejudice than individualistic ones

Question 26

What did Kleugel find?

Answer 26

Culture had no impact on prejudice

Question 27

What did Sechrist and Stangor find?

Answer 27

Manipulating group norms making people think others are commonly racist increased their prejudice behaviour sitting distance from an ethnic minority

Question 28

What did Al-Zahrani and Kaplowitz (1993) find?

Answer 28

that in a comparison of Saudi who are collectivist and American who are individualist people. Saudis tended to show more out-group-derogation

Question 29

What did Adorno find?

Answer 29

those with an authoritarian personality were more likely to be hostile to people not in their group who are considered to be of an inferior status