Prejudice and Discrimination

Question 1

Prejudice

Answer 1

Drawing conclusions about a person, a group of people or a situation prior to evaluating the evidence

Question 2

Adaptive Conservatism

Answer 2

Evolutionary principle that creates a predisposition towards distrusting anything or anyone unfamiliar or different

Question 3

In-group Bias

Answer 3

Tendency to favour individuals within our group over those from outside our group

Question 4

Out-group Homogenity

Answer 4

Tendency to view all individuals outside our group as highly similar

Question 5

Discrimination

Answer 5

Negative behaviour towards members of out-groups

Question 6

Stereotype

Answer 6

A belief, positive or negative, about the characteristics of members of a group that is applied generally to most members of the group

Question 7

Ultimate Attribution Error

Answer 7

Assumption that behaviours among individual members of a group are due to their internal dispositions

Question 8

Scapegoat Hypothesis

Answer 8

Claim that prejudice arises from a need to blame other groups for our misfortunes

Question 9

Just-world Hypothesis

Answer 9

Claim that our attributions and behaviours are shaped by a deep-seated assumption that the world is fair and all things happen for a reason

Question 10

Explicit Prejudice

Answer 10

Unfounded negative belief of which we are aware regarding the characteristics of an out-group

Question 11

Implicit Prejudice

Answer 11

Unfounded negative belief of which we are unaware regarding the characteristics of an out-group

Question 12

Jigsaw Classrooms

Answer 12

Educational approach designed to minimise prejudice by requiring all children to make independent contributions to a shared project