Unit 6: Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination

Question 1

Stereotype

Answer 1

cognitive components of attitudes towards a social group
beliefs about what a particular group is like

Question 7

whats is tokenism

Answer 7

superficial effort to include members of underrepresented groups = appearance of equality, no meaningful inclusion

Question 8

tokenism in context of gender

Answer 8

few women break ceiling glass= gender no longer obscures high-status positions
token practices serve t maintain status quo

Question 9

whats the bechdel test

Question 10

effects of tokenism

Answer 10

complaining (draws attention) -> lead to improvement

Question 11

how do stereotypes work as schemas?

Answer 11

• guide what we ATTEND to and affect how we PROCESS social info
• pay attention more often to info consistent with our stereotype
• we dont modify our activated form but instead create SUBTYPES (those not congruent with stereotype )

Question 12

what is the definition prejudice

Answer 12

reflects a negative response to another person based solely on that persons membership in a particular group
not personal(towards the person) , but affective reaction to category

Question 13

what does expressing prejudice in overt discrimination depend on

Answer 13

• perceived norms
• acceptability of doing so