Introduction to prejudice Flashcards
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What is prejudice?
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- Is an attitude and attitude comprises
2
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What 3 parts is prejudice compromised of?
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- How do you feel about something - affect
- What you do about it - behaviour
- What you about it - cognition
3
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What is anti-locution?
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- Hate speech about another group of people, harmless, but can affect self-esteem
4
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What is avoidance?
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- Avoid members of another group, may involve exclusion or isolation
5
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What is discrimination?
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- Denying the group opportunities, good or services, intention is to harm the group by stooping them to achieve goals
6
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What is physical attack?
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- Hate crimes
7
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What is extermination?
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- Genocide was created - getting rid of the group for good.
8
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How does social identity theory explain prejudice and discrimination?
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- This theory suggests that all humans are prejudice because we are like to put ourselves into groups. We feel good knowing there are other people like us. We make ourselves feel even better by insulating groups we don’t belong to and emphasising all that is bad about them.
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How does Realistic group theory explain prejudice and discrimination?
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- This theory suggests that prejudice develops when two groups are in conflict with each other because they are both competing for the same thing.
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How does authoritarian personality theory explain prejudice and discrimination?
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- This theory suggests that people vary in how prejudiced they are against.
- Some people will very hostile against different groups, whilst others will be much more tolerant.
- Prejudice is down to the sort of persoanlity we have; strongly prejudiced people have an authoritarian personality, which has developed through the way they have been brought up.
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What is a stereotype?
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- a fixed idea/image of a person
e.g. you see a person wearing a hoodie, immediately think they are dangerous and cross the road.
