Intergroup Relations

Question 1

What are stereotypes

Answer 1

Shared beliefs about characteristics of a group

Question 2

What is prejudice

Answer 2

Any evaluation of a social group or its members

Question 3

What is discrimination

Answer 3

Unequal treatment of different people based on the categories that they belong to

Question 4

Evidence of cognitive limitations and faults

Answer 4

People draw on stereotypes to gain knowledge about people they barely know (Dijker & Kooman 1996)

Question 5

Social categorisation

Answer 5

Process of identifying people as members of a social group because they share certain features of that group

Question 6

What is automaticity

Answer 6

The more often a category is used the more accessible it becomes

Question 7

What is the social identity theory (tajfel + Turner 1979)

Answer 7

A persons sense of who they are based on their group membership

Question 8

What is the out group homogeneity effect

Answer 8

The tendency to see people within the same group as being more similar than they really are

Question 9

What are the 3 motives behind stereotyping

Answer 9

Mastery
Connectedness
Justifying the social structure

Question 10

What is mastery

Answer 10

Stereotypes summarising personal experiences

Question 11

What is connectedness

Answer 11

Adopt stereotypes of the people closest to us to be apart of the group

Question 12

What is justifying the social culture

Answer 12

Stereotypes that serve as justifications to maintain the hierarchies of inequality

Question 13

What is implicit association test

Answer 13

Reaction time test to measure attitudes

Question 14

What are the requirements to correcting stereotype biased judgement

Answer 14

Acknowledgement of our judgements, time and motivation, conscious effort to avoid being influenced by stereotypes

Question 15

What is just world hypothesis

Answer 15

We believe people get what they deserve (Lerner 1965)

Question 16

What are the strategies for improving intergroup relations

Answer 16

Tokenism, affirmative action, integroup contact, contact hypothesis, extended contact, imagined contact, mental suppression

Question 17

What is tokenism

Answer 17

Performing +ve actions towards minority groups

Question 18

What is affirmative action

Answer 18

The policies designed to promote the employment of minority people

Question 19

What is +ve feedback bias

Answer 19

The process of giving more positive feedback on work believed to have been performed by a minority

Question 20

What is intergroup contact

Answer 20

Bringing together members of opposing groups should improve intergroup relations

Question 21

What is the contact hypothesis

Answer 21

The theory that certain types of direct contact between members of hostile groups will reduce stereotyping

Question 22

What is extended contact effect

Answer 22

People are less prejudiced if they’re friends with an in group member

Question 23

What is the imagined contact effect

Answer 23

Imagining +ve encounters with people of minority groups as it’ll make them feel more +ve towards that group

Question 24

What is mental suppression

Answer 24

The more people suppress prejudice over time the more their feelings help them control prejudice

Question 25

What are the barriers to stereotype change

Answer 25

Seeing stereotype inconsistent behaviour by a group member