Prejudice & Discrimination

Question 1

Define Prejudice

Answer 1

Unjustifiable and usually negative
attitudes towards a group and it’s
members – often based on insufficient/ incorrect information.

Question 2

Common types of Prejudice

Answer 2

• Race
• Age
• Sex

Question 3

True or false:
a negative attitude is the same as prejudice

Answer 3

false

Question 4

Use the tripartite model as a example of prejudice & discrimination

Answer 4

Cognition: “I believe that those foreigners are all violent criminals” (prejudice)

Affective: “I feel scared when I see a foreigner at the shops” (prejudice)

Behaviour: “I complain when I those foreigners attending the same school as my daughter” (discrimination)

Question 5

what is direct discrimination

Answer 5

Direct discrimination: treating someone unfavourably based on a prejudice.

Eg. Yelling slurs at someone

Question 6

what is indirect discrimination

Answer 6

Indirect discrimination: when there is a rule/ policy that applies for everyone, but disadvantages a certain group of people.

Eg. To boost healthy choices in the workplace, a boss turns the power to the elevators off & puts up signs saying “Get healthy, take the stairs”. Elain (a wheel chair user) didn’t love that…

Question 7

what are the 4 causes of prejudice

Answer 7

-Social influence

-Intergroup competition

-Social categorisation

-Just world phenomenon

Question 8

what is social influence

Answer 8

Attitudes learned from others that may change As, Bs, Cs (feelings, actions, thoughts).

Question 9

use social influence & prejudice in a example

Answer 9

Eg. you move to a new school and become friends with a group – they tell you about the “other” group and all the bad stuff they’ve done. Without even interacting with the group, you dislike them and avoid them
– you have possibly developed a prejudice.

Question 10

what is Inter-group competition

Answer 10

Struggle between groups who are both working towards an unshareable goal.

Question 11

use inter-group competition in an example

Answer 11

Eg. Your sports team has a chance to make it into the finals and earn everyone medals, and a trophy for the club with your names on it. You hear that the star player in another team broke their leg and is out for the rest of the season – why are you glad?

Question 12

what is social categorisation

Answer 12

Placing people into groups based off shared attributes creating an “Us” & “Them” mentality.

Question 13

use social categorisation & prejudice in an example

Answer 13

Eg. You’re happy to be friendly with everyone in your year at school, but your friendship group is better than the others & you’re picky about who can join the group…

Question 14

what is just-world phenomenon

Answer 14

Believing that people get what they deserve and are not impacted by other factors out of their control.

Question 15

use just-world phenomenon in an example

Answer 15

Eg. You work really hard to achieve your best at school and
beat another student at a test – did you work harder than them,
or is it because they have to work 20 hours a week and take
care of their younger siblings every night?

Question 16

How do we reduce prejudice

Answer 16

In order to reduce prejudice, it is important to increase the interaction between conflicting groups (contact hypothesis). By spending more time together, stereotypes and misconceptions can be broken down as individuals from different groups get to know each other.

Question 17

reducing prejudice involves what factors/components

Answer 17

-Intergroup contact

-Superordinate goals

-Mutual interdependence

-Equal-status contact

Question 18

what is intergroup contact

Answer 18

Increasing contact between groups in order to reduce prejudice.

Interacting and sharing between groups can increase the awareness of shared ideals, values and goals between individuals.

Question 19

what is superordinate goals

Answer 19

Superordinate goals are shared goals that are so big, that no individual or single group could achieve them on their own.

Cooperation and teamwork are required in order to achieve the goal, thus groups must overcome their differences to communicate and work together.

Question 20

what is mutual interdependence

Answer 20

Where people depend on another person or group to meet their shared goal.

People must put trust in
others in order to achieve
their goal, putting
prejudices aside in order
to get what they want.