social identity theory

Question 1

social categorization

Answer 1

an individual divided their social environment into in groups and out groups

Question 2

in groups

Answer 2

those like ourselves

Question 3

out groups

Answer 3

those different from ourselves

Question 4

category accentuation effect

Answer 4

exaggeration of differences between groups

Question 5

social identification

Answer 5

an individual strongly identifies with an in group and adopts the norms and attitudes

Question 6

social comparison

Answer 6

to maintain their self esteem, and individual compares their in group to their out group for a perception of group superiority

Question 7

positive distinctiveness

Answer 7

an individual motivation to show that the in group is preferable than the out group

Question 8

Park and Rothbart (1982) - natural experiment

Answer 8

• to see if natural occurring social groups would demonstrate in-group bias and the out-group homogeneity effect
• 90 participants belonging to three sororities at a university were asked to rank their sorority and the out group sororities out of 10 characteristics (8 favorable and 2 unfavorable)
• all groups said the favorable characteristics were more typical of their own sorority than other sororities. two of the other sororities ranked the unfavorable characteristics as more characteristic of other sororities
• belonging to an in group leads a to an in group bias and out group homogeneity. this increases the likelihood of forming a stereotype