Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination Flashcards
Stereotypes
Beliefs that certain attributes are characteristics of members of particular groups.
Prejudice
A negative attitude or affective response toward a certain group and it’s individual members.
Discrimination
Unfair treatment of members of a particular group based on their memberships in that group.
Modern Racism (Symbolic Racism)
Prejudice directed at other racial groups that exists alongside rejection of explicitly racist beliefs.
Implicit Association Test (IAT)
A technique for revealing non conscious prejudice toward particular groups.
Priming
A procedure used to increase the accessibility of a concept or schema.
Realistic Group Conflict Theory
A theory that group conflict, prejudice, and discrimination are likely to arise over competition between groups for limited resources.
Ethnocentrism
Glorifying one’s own group while vilifying other groups.
Superordinate Goals
Goals that transcend the interests of one individual group and that can be achieved more readily by two or more groups working together.
Minimal Group Paradigm
An experimental paradigm in which researchers create groups based on arbitrary and seemingly meaningless criteria and then examine how the members of these “minimal groups” are inclined to behave toward one another.
Social Identity Theory
A theory that a person’s self-concept and self-esteem not only derive from personal identity and accomplishments, but from the status and accomplishments of the various groups to which the person belongs.
Basking in Reflected Glory
The tendency to take pride in the accomplishments of those with whom we are in some way associated (even if it’s only weakly), as when fans identify with a winning team.
Frustration-Aggression Theory
The theory that frustration leads to aggression.
Outgroup Homogeneity Effect
The tendency to assume that within-group similarity is much stronger for outgroups than for ingroups.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Acting in a way that tends to produce the very behavior we expected int he first place, as when we act towards members of certain groups in ways that encourage the very behavior we expect from them.
