Factors affecting prejudice Flashcards

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What is the situational factor which influences prejudice

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Social Norms

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Social norms are

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An agreed or accepted way of behaving in society

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How do social norms cause prejudice

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

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Agreeableness from the Big 5 is defined as

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The measure of ones trusting and helpful nature.

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What is the relationship between Agreeableness and Prejudice

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

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What is openness to experience?

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receptivity to new ideas and new experiences

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Conscientiousness is?

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

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What do we expect about conscientiousness and prejudice?

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

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

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

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What is the relationship between SDO and prejudice?

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

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

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

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What is Social Dominance Oritentation?

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

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What is culture?

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

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What is a collectivist culture?

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A culture which puts the group wellbeing above individual wellbeing

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What is an individualistic culture?

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

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Collectivist cultures are more prejudice than individualistic cultures towards outgroups.

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

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What is an assimilative society?

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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

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What is a multi-cultural culture?

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

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What is an assimilative culture?

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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

20
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Which culture would you expect to see more prejudice in?

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

21
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What are the results of Cohrs about prejudice and personality?

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

22
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What is an issue with using questionnaires to study personality?

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

23
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What did Lippa and Arad find?

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

24
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What did Guimond find?

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Multicultural socieites were less prejudice than assimilative ones

25
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What did Fujimoto find?

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Collectivist cultures were more prejudice than individualistic ones

26
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What did Kleugel find?

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Culture had no impact on prejudice

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What did Sechrist and Stangor find?

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

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

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

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What did Adorno find?

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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