Module 57

Question 0

Prejudice provides…

Answer 0

An outlet for anger by providing someone to blame. After 9/11 many people lashed out against innocent Arab Americans.

Question 1

Prejudice

Answer 1

Simply called, “prejudgment” a prejudice is an unjustifiable NEGATIVE attitude toward a group and its members. Often of different cultural, ethnic, or gender groups.

Components:
Beliefs
Emotions (hostility, fear, envy)
Predisposition to act (to discriminate)

Question 2

Race

Answer 2

Shared biologically transmitted traits deemed “socially significant”

Question 3

Social roots of prejudice

Answer 3

Social inequalities, social divisions, and emotional scapegoating.

Question 4

Social inequality

Answer 4

When people have money, power, and prestige, and others do not, prejudice develops. Social inequalities increase prejudice.

Question 5

Just-world phenomenon

Answer 5

The tendency of people to believe the world is just and people get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

Question 6

Aggression

Answer 6

Can be any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy whether done reactively out of hostility or proactively as a calculated means to an end.

Question 7

Biology of aggression

Answer 7

Three levels of biological influences on aggressive behavior are:

Genetic influences
Neural influences
Biochemical influences

Question 8

Genetic influences

Answer 8

Animals have been bred for aggressiveness - for sport and at times for research. Twin studies show aggression may be genetic. In men, aggression is possibly linked to Y chromosome.

Question 9

Neural influences

Answer 9

Some centers in the brain, especially in the limbic system and the frontal love are intimately involved with aggression.

Question 10

Biochemical influences

Answer 10

Animals with finished amounts of testosterone become docile, and if injected with testosterone aggression increases.

Question 11

Conflict

Answer 11

Perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas.

Question 12

Social trap

Answer 12

A situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally perusing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior (lose-lose)

Question 13

Ethnocentrism

Answer 13

The practice of judging others in terms of ones own cultural standards.

Question 14

Frustration aggression principle

Answer 14

Theory that says aggression is the result of blocking or frustrating, a persons efforts to attain a goal.