Midterm 1 - Videos

Question 1

what is a collective autonomy threat?

Answer 1

People experience “collective autonomy restriction” when they believe other groups want to restrict their own group from freely expressing its social identity and determining its behavior

Question 2

do only low status people feel autonomy threat?

Answer 2

no

Question 3

what do autonomy threats motivate?

Answer 3

motivate you to try to keep your status as a group in the hierarchy

Question 4

what did Frank use initially? did it work?

Answer 4

vignette - no (not believable enough)

Question 5

what is the construct that Frank was trying to develop with his simulation?

Answer 5

“is my group free to create, define, and express their identity using this theoretical point?” (autonomy!)

Question 6

what did people do in Frank’s study?

Answer 6

groups had to create “coat of arms” paradigm –> picked this to reflect parts of their identity

then, to express identity, used videotape avatars (supposed to reflect the coat of arms created)

Question 7

what did Frank manipulate in his study?

Answer 7

high-power groups could change others avatars

Question 8

what is the limitation of Frank’s study?

Answer 8

cant be as meaningful as real life identity

Question 9

Frank’s working on a new study – what is it abt ? explain

Answer 9

what would happen if hierarchy reverses

Question 10

what does Derek brown study?

Answer 10

how inequality is created and maintained between groups and within organizations

Question 11

What is the google manifesto?

Answer 11

“diversity is harming us” (what Derek brown is investigating)

Question 12

Derek Brown first study

Answer 12

2 groups: 1 gets an advantage, or its a win-win or its a lose-lose

takeaway: people in advantage group ignores what equality is trying to do (they want to preserve the advantage to their in-group)

individual differences aren’t predictive of feeling advantaged

Question 13

Derek Brown second study

Answer 13

presented win-win/lose-lose equality policies jointly to try to get ppl to make more balanced judgements

didn’t change misperception that equality would harm advantaged group

Question 14

What does Sa-Kiera study?

Answer 14

maintenance, formation, intersections of hierarchies

Question 15

according to Sa-kiera, everyone who disagrees on SDO scales comprises two types of people? which ones?

Answer 15

people who are being conditioned to disagree and those who intrinsically believe there shouldn’t be hierarchies

Question 16

Sa-Kiera’s research on SDO and empathy

Answer 16

• SDO linked to how you feel but not how you think other would feel (so ppl high in SDO can recognize emotions in others and don’t just lack ability)
• when ppl could pick what emotion to feel toward low status target, ppl high in SDO didn’t pick empathy
• SO lack of empathy and increased counter empathy toward outgroups seems to be motivated (its about lack of motivation not abilities)

Question 17

according to chadly stern, how is stereotyping and SDO related?

Answer 17

diff motivations (ie SDO) could correspond to stereotyping in terms of trait attributes

high SDO and need for structure both motivate agreeing w stereotypes

Question 18

Chadly Stern on miscomfort and false positives (categorization)

Answer 18

• bias to NOT include ppl in ingroup unless overwhelming evidence
• conservatives might have more neg rxn to categorizing a minority into their group
• liberals might be uncomfy for diff reasons (maybe bc they were wrong, maybe bc they wrongly categorized someone as lower status than they rly are)

Question 19

Chadly Stern definition of conservativism

Answer 19

resistant to change (or support change that brings us backward in time)

Question 20

Chadly stern definition of liberalism

Answer 20

pro novel change

Question 21

According to Chadly Stern, we can always organize diff parties/ideologies along a spectrum of extent to which ppl support or oppose _________.

Answer 21

novel change!

Question 22

What does Kate Ratliff hope ppl get out of taking the IAT

Answer 22

• learn ab implicit bias
• understand that good ppl have it within them to be biased and discriminatory
• get to experience science!

Question 23

Kate Ratliff hopes to use IAT to educate people about implicit bias in ways that __________ while ________

Answer 23

keep defensiveness low; making ppl accountable for the biases they have

Question 24

According to Kate Ratliff, implicit biases are ______ we have between _____ and ______

Answer 24

associations between attitudes and certain stimuli

Question 25

Kate Ratliff on IAT and un/conscious bias

Answer 25

• IAT doesn’t tap into deep unconscious/true self
• we are all a little aware of these biases, just can’t necessarily control them!

Question 26

Defensiveness and the IAT

Answer 26

• avg score 2.5/4
• comes across in 2 types of items: derogating IAT/science or derogating implicit bias

Question 27

According to Kate Ratliff, ppl who feel _____ after taking the IAT are more likely to actually change their behaviour.

Answer 27

guilty

Question 28

Conditions David Schindler argues allowed for positive attitude change from exposure to Black US troops in UK in WWII

Answer 28

• Americans came as friends helping for a joint cause
• common enemy/goal
• support from US and UK governments
• equal status (in part bc Black soldiers had higher status in UK vs US South, UK ppl didn’t like white soldiers bc they were annoying w big egos and white ppl suck)

Question 29

David Schindler and methods of intergenerational transmission of racial attitudes

Answer 29

• parents to kids
• neighbourhoods; geographic sorting (ppl high prejudice don’t want to go to areas known for low prejudice)

Question 30

David Schindler says it would be hard to establish the same kinds of effects as he did with his archival WWII study today because of ________

Answer 30

globalization! (more factors at play)

Question 31

How did Linda Zou originally come to develop the racial position model

Answer 31

• wanted to look at inter-minority interactions
• first had to look at dimensions through which we see/categorize racial groups

Question 32

Does Linda Zou’s racial position model apply to other contexts or constructs?

Answer 32

• yes, it might (but currently US specific)
• has done some work on women in STEM w model
• might apply to religion too
• doesn’t apply to age (who would be foreign??)

Question 33

How does Linda Zou use the double jeopardy hypothesis to explain the lack of gender effects in her results?

Answer 33

• DJH: women lower status, men subject of more prejudice
• might cancel each other out!

Question 34

According to Linda Zou, which dimension of discrimination (in the racial position model) is seen as more acceptable?

Answer 34

foreign/american

Question 35

Explain Linda Zou’s research on her model and hiring of minorities

Answer 35

• ppl match minorities to jobs that fit their place on model
• asians for more high status jobs
• black ppl for more “american” jobs (ie politics)