prejudice

Question 1

what are stereotypes?

Answer 1

• overgeneralised belief about someone or something typically based on limited information

Question 2

what is discrimination?

Answer 2

• practice of treating one person or group differently from another in an unfair way

Question 3

what does prejudice lead to?

Answer 3

• dehumanisation and violence across the world, without cultural or historical boundary

Question 4

what are the three negative components of prejudice?

Answer 4

• cognitive: the stereotypes we hold
• affective: feelings of hostility and hatred
• behavioural: in terms of negative prejudice, this can be displayed as avoidance, assault, joke making or discrimination
• they don’t all manifest at one time

Question 5

what are the causes of prejudice?

Answer 5

• Holocaust inspired much of theoretical work into roots of prejudice, as much as it’s spurred on research into obedience
• for longest time, social psych explained atrocities committed during war as a consequence of dispositional features of perpetrators
• however, research into group dynamics was suggesting alternative explanation