Week 11: Sources of Prejudice Flashcards
Prejudice
A negative prejudgement of a group and its individual members. Attitude.
Stereotype
Beliefs about the personal attributes of a group of people. Generalization.
Discrimination
Unjustifiable negative behaviour towards a group or its members.
Social Dominance Orientation
A motivation to have your own group be dominant over other social groups.
Social Sources of Prejudice?
Social inequalities, socialization, conformity, institutional supports.
Ethnocentric
Believing in the superiority of your own ethnic and culture group and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups.
Authoritarian Personality
Intolerance for weakness, submissive respect for group authorities, punitive attitude.
Prone to prejudice and stereotyping.
What are motivational sources of prejudice?
Frustration and aggression (scapegoat), social identity theory, need for status.
Realistic Group Conflict Theory
The theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources.
Social Identity
The “we” aspect of our self-concept; group membership.
Social Identity Theory
We categorize, we compare, we identify.
In-Group Bias
The tendency to favour your own group.
Terror Management
People’s self-protective emotional and cognitive responses (including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews and prejudices) increasing when confronted with reminders of mortality.
What are cognitive sources of prejudice?
Categorization, distinctiveness, attributions, group-serving bias, motivation to see the world as just.
Out-Group Homogeneity Effect
Perception of out-group members as more similar to one another than are in-group members.
