Prejudice & Discrimination Flashcards
Define Prejudice
Unjustifiable and usually negative
attitudes towards a group and it’s
members – often based on insufficient/ incorrect information.
Common types of Prejudice
- Race
- Age
- Sex
True or false:
a negative attitude is the same as prejudice
false
Use the tripartite model as a example of prejudice & discrimination
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)
what is direct discrimination
Direct discrimination: treating someone unfavourably based on a prejudice.
Eg. Yelling slurs at someone
what is indirect discrimination
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…
what are the 4 causes of prejudice
-Social influence
-Intergroup competition
-Social categorisation
-Just world phenomenon
what is social influence
Attitudes learned from others that may change As, Bs, Cs (feelings, actions, thoughts).
use social influence & prejudice in a example
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.
what is Inter-group competition
Struggle between groups who are both working towards an unshareable goal.
use inter-group competition in an example
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?
what is social categorisation
Placing people into groups based off shared attributes creating an “Us” & “Them” mentality.
use social categorisation & prejudice in an example
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…
what is just-world phenomenon
Believing that people get what they deserve and are not impacted by other factors out of their control.
use just-world phenomenon in an example
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?
How do we reduce prejudice
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.
reducing prejudice involves what factors/components
-Intergroup contact
-Superordinate goals
-Mutual interdependence
-Equal-status contact
what is intergroup contact
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.
what is superordinate goals
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.
what is mutual interdependence
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.
