Introduction to Text Flashcards
APPRAISAL
A SET OF COGNITIONS THAT ARE ATTACHED TO A SPECIFIC EMOTION
ATTITUDE
A GENERAL EVALUATION OF SOME OBJECT. THIS EVALUATION USUALLY FALLS ALONG A GOOD-BAD OR FAVORABLE-UNFAVORABLE DIMENSION
BASIC (PRIMITIVE) CATEGORIES
Categories into which people are grouped rather automatically upon perception. These categories are race, gender, and age.
CULTURAL STEREOTYPE
Consensually or widely shared beliefs about a group.
DISCRIMINATION
Negative behavior toward someone based on their membership in a group.
INDIVIDUAL STEREOTYPE
The beliefs held by an individual about the characteristics of a group
INGROUP
Any group with which one affiliates one’s self. Any group to which one belongs.
MINIMAL GROUP
Groups formed on arbitrary or random criteria (e.g., random assignment)
MOTIVATION
The impetus to do some behavior (or avoid doing some behavior), and to keep doing it, in order to meet one’s goals.
OUTGROUP
Any group with which one does not affiliate itself. Any group to which one does not belong.
PREJUDICE
A biased evaluation of a group based on real or imagined characteristics of the group members.
REALISTIC-CONFLICT THEORY
States that prejudice and stereotyping arise from the competition between groups for scarce, valued resources.
SCHEMA
A hierarchically organized, cognitive structure that represents knowledge about a concept or type of stimulus and its attributes, and the relations between those attributes.
STEREOTYPE
A set of beliefs about the personal attributes of a group of people.
SUBTYPING
The process whereby a new category is created to accommodate stereotype-inconsistent members of a group about which one holds negative stereotypes
