unit 9 - 2nd set of vocab Flashcards
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- an unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members / prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action
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Prejudice
2
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- a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people
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stereotype
3
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- unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members
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Discrimination
4
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- the tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get
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just-world phenomenon
5
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- “us” / people with whom we share a common identity
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Ingroup
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- “them” / those perceived as different or apart from our ingroups
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Outgroup
7
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- the tendency to favor our own group
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Ingroup bias
8
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- the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame
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Scapegoat theory
9
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- the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
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Culture
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- an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior / norms prescribe “proper” behavior
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Norm
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- the enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group
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Group polarization
12
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- the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
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Groupthink
13
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- the tendency to recall faces of one’s own race more accurately than faces of others
races / also called the cross-race effect or the own-race bias
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Other-race effect
14
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- adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
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Conformity
15
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- influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval
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Normative social influence
