Module 77

Question 1

prejudice

Answer 1

prejudgement

Question 2

stereotypes

Answer 2

generalized beliefs about a group of people

Question 3

discriminate

Answer 3

to act in unjustifiable ways towards members of a group

Question 4

just-world phenomenon

Answer 4

tendency for people to believe the world is just and that therefore people get what they deserve and deserve what they get

Question 5

ingroup

Answer 5

“us” people with whom we share a common identity

Question 6

outgroup

Answer 6

“them” people who we see as different or apart from our ingroup

Question 7

ingroup bias

Answer 7

favouring our ingroup

Question 8

scapegoat theory

Answer 8

when things go wrong, finding someone to blame can provide a target for our negative emotions

theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

Question 9

other-race effect

Answer 9

tendency to recall faces of ones own race more accurately than faces of other races.

AKA cross-race effect or own-race bias