Stereotypes Prejudice & Discrimination

Question 1

Stereotypes

Answer 1

Cognitive. Occur when attitudes and impressions are

made based on limited and superficial information.

Question 2

Self-Fulfilling

Prophecy:

Answer 2

When stereotypes lead to expectations and those
expectations create conditions that lead to confirmation of
the stereotype.

Question 3

Stereotype

Threat

Answer 3

Concern or anxiety about confirming a negative stereotype

about one’s social group.

Question 4

Prejudice

Answer 4

Affective. An irrational positive or negative attitude
toward a person, group, or thing prior to an actual
experience.

Question 5

Ethnocentrism

Answer 5

Refers to the practice of making judgments about other
cultures based on the values and beliefs of one’s own
culture.

Question 6

Cultural

Relativism

Answer 6

Refers to the recognition that social groups and cultures

should be studied on their own terms.

Question 7

Discrimination

Answer 7

: Behavioral. When prejudicial attitudes cause individuals of
a particular group to be treated differently from others.