Privilege

Question 1

Groupings

Answer 1

Ingroup: Group you belong to
Outgroup: A group you do not belong to
Intergroup bias: Preference for ingroup over outgroup

Question 2

Minimal groups experiments

Answer 2

split groups of people up. Even without competition intergroup bias can appear.

Question 3

Old-fashioned racism

Answer 3

Actually believing own race is superior

Question 4

‘new racism’

Answer 4

interaction between intergroup bias and egalitarism (no racism): old fashioned prejudice but non-prejudice behaviour

Question 5

Implicit and explicit intergroup bias

Answer 5

Explicit: considered and public response

Implicit: split-second reactions, non-verbal behaviour, is communicated to others (non-verbally)

Question 6

Privilege

Answer 6

Regards the unfair advanteges of groups rather than the unfair disadvantages of groups.

You are always in some privilege groups.

Question 7

Seeing privilege

Answer 7

lowers self-esteem (rated high in job test –> more likely to admit privilege)

Question 8

How to combat prejudice

Answer 8

intergroup contact (trying to be less prejudice doesn’t work have opposite effect)