Problem 3: Prejudice And Discrimination chapter 10 Flashcards
What is minority influence?
Social influence whereby numerical or power minorities change the attitudes of the majority
What is the conformity bias?
Tendency for social psychology to treat group influence as one way process in which individuals or minorities always conform to majorities
What is conformity
Majority influence I w high the majority persuades the minority’s
What is normalization?
Mutual compromise leading to convergence
What is innovation ?
A minority’s creates and accentuates conflict in order to persuade the majority to take the minority viewpoint
What is prejudice?
Unfavorable attitude towards a social group and its members (lines to feelings)= prejudgment
What is dehumanization
Stripping people of their dignity and humanity (people are seen as a thing,eg slavery
What is a genocide?
The ultimate expression of prejudice by exterminating an entire social group(the holocaust)
What is an stereotype
Overgeneralization, simplified evaluation and categorization
What is discrimination,
Behaviour, unfavorable towards someone or a group
What is the Implicit association test?(IAT)
Measure within social psychology designed to detect the strength of a persons automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory
What is the three component model?
1cognitive : beliefs about the attitude object
2 affective: strong feelings (usually negative) about the attitude object and the qualities it is believed to process
3 conative: intentions to behave in certain ways towards the attitude object
What are the targets of prejudice?
Sexism
Sex role
Gender
Racism
Ageism
Homosexuals
Physical and mental handicap
What is sexism?
Prejudice and discrimination against people based kn their gender
Most men and women belief that men are conpentent and women are warm
( the two most fundamental dimensions for our perceptions of other people according to the stereotype content model)
Female stereotypical traits are significantly less valued than male stereotypical traits
What is a sex role?
Behaviour considered sex-stereotypically appropriate
What is gender? And the three effects relating to it
Sex stereotypical attributes of a person
Glass ceiling
Glass cliff
Face-ism
What is a glass ceiling?
An invisible barrier that prevents women and minorities from attaining top leadership positions
What is glas cliff?
A tendency for women rather than men to be appointed to precarious leadership positions associated with a high probability of failure and criticism