Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Question 1

Stereotypes

Answer 1

A generalized belief or expectation about a group of people stereotypes can be both positive and negative stereotypes can be beneficial at times. Stereotypes are more commonly formed about outgrips

Question 2

Prejudice

Answer 2

An attitude toward a member of a group, based soley on membership to that group in psychology prejudice are usually only linked to negative attitudes

Question 3

Discrimination

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Unjustified treatment toward a group or person within a group based on their being in that group

Question 4

The eye of the storm A Class Divided

Answer 4

Teacher segregated students by brown, blue eyed students begin to discriminate against each other. There was also a training of segregation for a company of adults.

Question 5

Doll study (Clark & Clark, 1947)

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The study of young girls attitudes on black and white dolls

Question 6

Goldberg’s authors and Gender study 1968

Answer 6

Played with Names participants showed men were interested by men articles so did woman they rated men authors more when men voted. Gender bias and stereotypes

Question 7

Operant Conditioning and Classic Conditioning

Answer 7

If you associate certain groups with certain things

Question 8

Just world belief phenomenon

Answer 8

Good people get good things and bad people get bad things.

Question 9

Perceptual Biasing

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Our tendency to see events through our expectations

Question 10

Ultimate attribution error

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Our tendency to blame stereotypes matching outcomes that occur to group members to internal factors, while blaming non matching outcomes to extraordinary external factors

Question 11

Greenberg & Pyszcynski’s racist comment during a debate study (1985)

Answer 11

When a racist comment was made people went with it there wasn’t really a difference between black and white

Question 12

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

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what we think or what we may assume when we give people the opportunity to act on what we assume about them

Question 13

Stone at el. 1999 study mini golf example

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Participants of diverse kids african americans were impacted by instructions did really well playing golf compared to other racial groups they just mentioned terms like sports hand coordination

Question 14

Rosenthal and Jacobson The Pygmalion effect 1968

Answer 14

kids were told they were “late bloomers” and were transformed and did well “positive expectations”

Teachers were given random names of students and when they were expected to get smarter they got smarter the next following year. If more is expected from the kid they get more appraisal.

Question 15

The Implication Association Test

Answer 15

Bias towards groups test proven to show your own bias hidden prejudice

Question 16

Muzzier Sherif experiment 1961 The robbers cave

Answer 16

Invited kids mostly white upper class similar backgrounds separated to 2 groups they could see each other across the lake and can’t interact with each other. He would host sporting events and created aggression by appraisal. He threw a party and told both groups different times the station was full of good food then late group were upset and got scraps. When they had exposure to each other they got along.

Question 17

The contact hypothesis

Answer 17

have different groups come together later they will get use to each other and unify each other