PREJUDICE

Question 1

This refers to the dislike of diversity.

Answer 1

Prejudice

Question 2

Word or terms that often overlap using the word prejudice.

Answer 2

Discrimination and Stereotyping

Question 3

A negative prejudgment of a group and its members.

Answer 3

Prejudice

Question 4

A distinct combination of feelings, inclinations to act, and beliefs.

Answer 4

Attitude

Question 5

Negative evaluations that mark prejudice can stem from emotional associations, from the need to justify behavior, or from negative beliefs called _______.

Answer 5

Stereotypes

Question 6

This is to generalize and categorize.

Answer 6

Stereotype

Question 7

They reflect ideas that groups of people hold about others who are different.

Answer 7

Stereotype

Question 8

Roots of Prejudice (3)

Answer 8

1. Social Sources
2. Emotional Sources
3. Cognitive Sources

Question 9

Social sources of prejudice (6)

Answer 9

1. Unequal Status
2. Conformity
3. Ingroup Bias
4. Social Identity
5. Stereotype threat
6. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Question 10

This is a social source of prejudice where:
Masters view slaves as lazy, irresponsible, and lacking ambition—as having those traits that justify slavery

Answer 10

Unequal Status

Question 11

1. This is a social source of prejudice where:
   Negative beliefs predict negative behavior (or problems in life). If a person thinks we are clever or stupid, they will treat us that way.
   If we are treated as clever, stupid, or whatever, we will act and even become this way.
2. This also known as?

Answer 11

1. The self-fulfilling prophecy
2. Pygmalion Effect

Question 12

This is a social source of prejudice that refers to being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one’s group.

Answer 12

Stereotype Threat

Question 13

This social source of prejudice refers to self-concept—our sense of who we are—contains not just personal identity but also our _______.

Answer 13

Social Identity

Question 14

A person may identify his self a man, a Filipino, a psychology student of USJ-R, a member of the school’s student council, a chess player, and so on. What social source of prejudices is this?

Answer 14

Social Identity

Question 15

Social Identity Theory (Turner & Tajfel)

Answer 15

1. We categorize
2. We identify
3. We compare

Question 16

This social source of prejudice refers to the group definition of who you are—your race, religion, gender, and academic major—implies a description of who you are not.

Answer 16

Ingroup Bias

Question 17

The circle that includes “us”.

Answer 17

Ingroup

Question 18

The circle that excludes “them.”

Answer 18

Outgroup

Question 19

This social source of prejudice refers to socially accepted; many people will follow the path of least resistance and conform to fashion

Answer 19

Conformity

Question 20

They will act not so much out of a need to hate as out of a need to be liked and accepted. What social source of prejudice is this?

Answer 20

Conformity

Question 21

What are the emotional sources of prejudice?

Answer 21

1. Personality Dynamics
2. Frustration and Aggression

Question 22

1. This is an emotional source of prejudice where pain and frustration (blocking a goal) often evoke hostility.
2. This is also known as?

Answer 22

1. Frustration and Aggression
2. Scapegoat theory

Question 23

It is a hostile social-psychological discrediting routine by which people move blame and responsibility away from themselves and towards a target person or group.

Answer 23

Scapegoating

Question 24

It is also a practice by which angry feelings and feelings of hostility may be projected, via inappropriate accusation, towards others. What is this?

Answer 24

Scapegoating

Question 25

The target feels wrongly persecuted and receives misplaced vilification, blame, and criticism; he is likely to be rejected by those the perpetrator seeks to influence. What is this?

Answer 25

Scapegoating

Question 26

To perceive ourselves as having status, we need people below us. The psychological benefit of status is superiority. What type of personality dynamic is this?

Answer 26

Need for status, self-regard and belonging

Question 27

Obedience and conformity are the most important virtues children should learn. What type of personality dynamic is this?

Answer 27

Authoritarian Personality

Question 28

Who identified the authoritarian personality?

Answer 28

Adorno

Question 29

This personality does not want to give orders; their personality type wants to take orders.

Answer 29

Authoritarian Personality

Question 30

People with this type of personality seek conformity, security, and stability.

Answer 30

Authoritarian Personality

Question 31

They become anxious and insecure when events or circumstances upset their previously existing worldview. They are very intolerant of any divergence from what they consider to be expected (usually conceptualized in terms of their religion, race, history, nationality, culture, language, etc.). What personality is this?

Answer 31

Authoritarian Personality

Question 32

What are the cognitive sources of prejudice?

Answer 32

1. Categorization 2. Distinctiveness 3. Attribution

Question 33

This a cognitive source of prejudice where it perceives similarities and differences and simplify our environment to categorize—to organize the world by clustering objects into groups.

Answer 33

Categorization

Question 34

This cognitive source of prejudice refers to distinctive people, and vivid or extreme occurrences often draw attention and distort judgment.

Answer 34

Distinctiveness

Question 35

We attribute people's behavior so much to their inner dispositions that we discount important situational forces. This involves heavily emphasizing internal personality characteristics to explain someone's behavior in a given situation rather than thinking about external situational factors. What is this?

Answer 35

Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 36

Imagine yourself walking down a crowded sidewalk, carrying loaded bags from shops. If someone bumps into you, you are probably inclined to think “what an idiot! That person has no respect for others, he clearly saw me!” In this assessment of the person's behavior, you fail to consider situational factors like someone else bumping into that person, or your failure to realize that your bags are taking up more room than you think they are, thus forcing people to bump into you as they try to get around you. What is this?

Answer 36

Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 37

On a specific day a waitress is talking rude to her customers. The customers now think that she is a really bad person. What the customers don't realize is that usually most people find the waitress friendly but today the waitress is experiencing one of the hardest days in her life. Her husband just left her for another woman, and she just lost her son in a car wreck. If the customers were aware of the problems the waitress just had, they actually wouldn't mind her negative attitude as much considering her current state. What is this?

Answer 37

Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 38

The belief is that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get. Attributing failures to dispositional causes rather than situational causes, which are unchangeable and uncontrollable, satisfies our need to believe that the world is fair and we have control over our life.

Answer 38

Just-World Phenomenon