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Week 9 FINAL EXAM Flashcards

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_________ - preconceived negative attitude towards a social group (outgrip) and its members

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prejudice

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___________ - negative behaviours towards people who are the object of prejudice

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discrimination

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_________ - shared and simplified image of a social group and its members

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stereotype

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________ - prejudice or discrimination against people based on their race or ethnicity

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Racism

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There has been a qualitative shift from ‘old-fashioned’ racism to ‘_______’ racism

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modern

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‘___-_________’ racism: blatant expression of negative stereotypes of others based on category membership

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old-fashioned

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_______ racism: simultaneously committed to equality and have negative affect towards outgrips

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modern racism

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How do you detect ‘modern racism’?

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Implicit Association Test; Social Distance

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_______ prejudice: conscious and controllable attitudes, usually measured via self-report

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Explicit prejudice

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________ prejudice: automatic, unintentionally activated by presence of attitude object

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implicit prejudice

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________ - prejudice or discrimination against people based on their sex

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sexism

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________- sexism - blatant, negative views about women or men

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hostile sexism

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__________ sexism - idealising women in traditional roles

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benevolent sexism

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Stereotype Content Model: two primary dimensions of stereotypes: _____ and _______

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either Warm (housewife) or competent (business woman that is cold)

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In the Stereotype Content Model, high status groups are seen as _________, while high competition groups are seen as lacking _________

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Competent; warmth

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_______ - prejudice or discrimination against people based on their age

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ageism

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17
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________/disadvantage: prejudice may lead to deprivation of opportunities

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deprivation

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18
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__________ _______: being aware of a negative stereotype associated with your group leads to performance

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stereotype threat

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Is evaluation apprehension associated with stereotype threat?

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Yes, also lowered expectations

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20
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Consequences of stereotype threat:

  • decreased p________
  • ________ attributions of failure
  • _______ - increase quality of performance
  • self-__________
  • discount task or distance from group
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performance; internal; reactance; handicapping

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The __________ personality is a theory of social prejudice

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authoritarian personality

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______ __________ theory: motivated to protect existing social system > prejudice

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system justification theory

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_____ ________ theory: favour our in-group over outgroups

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Social Identity theory

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Motivation to avoid ________: conflict between prejudiced beliefs and personal egalitarian values

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Motivation to avoid prejudice

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________ management theory: fear of death/mortality produces anxiety. We can derogate those who increase our anxiety by threatening our worldview

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Terror management theory

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__________ ____________ effect: see outgrip members as alike, in-group members as different

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outgroup homogeneity effect

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27
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Is distinctiveness associated to stereotypes or sexism

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stereotypes

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28
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_______ _________: perception of stronger associated between 2 variables than actually exists

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illusory correlation

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29
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Stereotypes can be maintained by P_______, Ass________ and A_______ P_________, S_________ M___________; and S____-F________ P_________

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Priming; Assimilation; Attributional processes; selective memory; self-fulfilling prophecy

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30
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________ __________: infer dispositional causes for stereotype congruent behaviours

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Attributional processes

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31
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_________ hypothesis: direct contact between groups leads to reduced prejudice

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Contact prejudice

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32
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Are common goals important in which theory?

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Contact Hypothesis

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33
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Social norms favouring equality is important in which theory?

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Contact hypothesis

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34
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______ _______: knowledge that other people in your in-group have friends in the outgroup

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extended contact

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35
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_______ __________ : imagining positive contact with outgroup can improve intergroup relations

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Imagined Contact

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36
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_________ contact reduces stereotypes more than ________ contact

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direct contact; imagined contact

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37
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A preconceived negative attitude towards a social group and its members is known as __________

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prejudice

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38
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Prejudice is an a________

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ATTITIUDE

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39
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Attitude is made up of ABC:

  • A______
  • B________ tendency
  • C______
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affect; Behavioural tendency; Cognitions (beliefs)

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40
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The problem with __________ is that they are overgeneralised and/or just plain wrong

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stereotypes

41
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Discrimination is a negative _________

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behaviour

42
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Blatant prejudice is being replaced by ________ prejudice

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subtle

43
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_______ ______ _______ are good to understand or discover implicit racism

A

implicit association test

44
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Automatic __________ involves primitive regions of the brain associated with fear

A

prejudice

45
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Unequal status breeds ________

A

prejudice

46
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Those high in _______ ________ _________ tend to view people in terms of hierarchies

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social dominance orientation

47
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___________ : believing in the superiority of one’s own ethnic and cultural group and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups

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ethnocentric

48
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What two characteristics are present in the most highly prejudiced individuals?

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Social Dominance Orientation; Authoritarion personality type

49
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_______ ___________ orientation predicts sexism, nationalism, ethnic prejudice

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social dominance orientation

50
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________ _______ ________ theory suggests that prejudice arises when groups compete for scarce resources

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Realistic group conflict theory

51
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We are more prone to in-group bias when our group in ______ and _______ in status to the comparative outgroup

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small; lower

52
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Denying human attributes and emotions to outgrips members is known as ____________

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infra humanisation

53
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A psychological benefit of prejudice is a feeling of ___________

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superiority

54
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_________ represent cognitive efficiency

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stereotypes

55
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_____ _________ effect: perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another the are in-group members. Thus ‘they are alike, we are diverse’

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Out-group homogeneity effect

56
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The (greater/lesser) our familiarity with a social group, the more we see its diversity

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greater

57
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_______ consciousness: a person’s expectation of being victimised by prejudice or discrimination

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Stigma consciousness

58
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Positive behaviours by outgroup members is often ___________

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dismissed

59
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_____-_______ bias: explaining away outgroup members’ positive behaviours; also attributing negative behaviours to their dispositions

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group-serving bias

60
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Cognitive illusory correlations can lead to __________

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stereotypes

61
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_____-_________ phenomenon: The tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get what deserve, and deserve what they get.

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Just-world phenomenon

62
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________: Accommodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by thinking of them as ‘exceptions to the rule’

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subtyping

63
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_________: Accomodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group

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Subgrouping

64
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Stereotype threat affects three areas of performance:

  • St_____
  • S___-M________
  • Sup________ unwanted thoughts and emotions
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Stress; Self-monitoring; Suppressing unwanted thoughts and emotions

65
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Discrimination is the ___________ component of prejudice

A

behavioural

66
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Stereotypes are the ___________ component of prejudice

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cognitive

67
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Discriminatory behaviour often has its source in prejudicial _________

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attitudes

68
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Prejudiced and stereotypic evaluations can occur outside people’s __________

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awareness

69
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M________ P__________ even appears as a sensitivity that leads to exaggerated reactions to isolated members of an ethnic minority

A

Modern Prejudice

70
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How to measure racism?

  • s___-r_____ scales
  • S_____ D______
  • Unob______ measures
  • Lan_______/Dis_______
  • Implicit Association Test
A

Self-Report scales; social distance; Unobtrusive measures; Language/Discourse

71
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Automatic prejudice involves more ________ areas of the brain, like the amygdala

A

primitive

72
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S_________ C_______ model: dimensions or warmth and competence reflect socio-structural variables of status and competition

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Stereotype Content Model

73
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One effect of prejudice is deprivation of o__________

A

opportunities (like getting a job, or renting a house)

74
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Prejudice can result in vi______ and gen______

A

violence and genocide

75
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Prejudice can lead to deh__________

A

dehumanisation

76
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Prejudice can lead to individuals internalising the negative attitude and thus have lower ___-______

A

self-esteem

77
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Prejudice can lead to self-_______ __________

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self-fulfilling prophecy

78
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Prejudice can lead to s_________ t________

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stereotype threat

79
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What are the causes of stereotype threat?

  • E________ A________ of non dominant responses
  • Lowered e_________
A

Evaluation apprehension; Lowered expectations

80
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Providing role models can reduce s_______ t_______

A

stereotype threat

81
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Authoritarian personality types tend to be:

  • pr_______
  • hold con__________ political views
  • rigid thin_____
  • Concerned with status, p______ and dominance
A

prejudice; conservative; thinking

82
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Those high in s________ d________ o_________ tend to view people in terms of hierarchies

A

social dominance orientation

83
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Motivational sources of prejudice?

  • S_____ I______ T______
  • Prejudice a_______
  • Te______ Ma________ theory
A

Social Identity Theory; Prejudice Avoidance; Terror Management Theory

84
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What is realistic group conflict theory?

A

Prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources

85
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_______ sources of prejudice

- categorisation leads to accentuation of similarities within groups and differences between groups

A

cognitive

86
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According to cognitive theory, s_______ represent cognitive efficiency

A

stereotypes

87
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___-____ bias: the tendency for people to more accurately recognise faces of their own race

A

Own-Race Bias

88
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S_______ C__________: how much we expect others to stereotype us

A

Stigma Consciousness

89
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Ca______ is crucial to stereotype creation

A

Categorisation

90
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O_______ homo_______ effect; We all see the members of our group as distinct and unique but from the outgroup they are all the same

A

Outgroup Homogeneity effect

91
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The more ________ a stimuli is, the more we cognitively attend to it. (A black person in a group of white people)

A

distinctive

92
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Co-occurrence of 2 distinctive events ( a black man and a nearby robbery) is attention grabbing and presumes an i________ C_________

A

illusionary correlation

93
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S_______ bias attention, encoding, and recall of information

A

Stereotypes

94
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Distinctive and accessible categories are most easily pr_______

A

primed

95
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We infer (via cognitive att______ pr_______) that dispositional causes for stereotype behaviour is congruent with a behaviour

A

attributional processes

96
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E____-S_____ contact: to reduce prejudice, both groups need to be treated as of equal status

A

Equal Status contact

97
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Conditions for contact to work:

  • E_____ - S______ between both groups
  • Intergroup coo________
  • S_____ N_____ that favour equality
  • sustained cl____ co_____
A

Equal status; cooperation; social norms; close contact

98
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Contact that brings per_______ sim______ among groups helps with reducing prejudice

A

perceived similarity

99
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Ex______ Co_______: knowledge that other people in your in-group have friends in the outgroup. This makes you more comfortable with a potential relationship with outgroup members

A

Extended contact

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