Week 9: Prejudice, power and psychology

Question 1

Stereotype

Answer 1

A response to something or someone which relies on previously stored information instead of in coming information.

Question 2

Prejudice

Answer 2

an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge

Question 3

Discrimination

Answer 3

Treating someone less favourbly because of their group membership.

Question 4

Dehumanisation

Answer 4

the act of regarding, representing, or treating a person or group as less than human

Question 5

Infrahumanisation

Answer 5

A categorisation of a group of people as less fully human than the person’s own group

Question 6

Marginalised

Answer 6

When a group is systematically excluded and discriminated against within society.

Question 7

Just world belief

Answer 7

A tendency to believe that the world is fair.

Question 8

Colonial racism

Answer 8

The creation of the concept of race by colonisers. In turn, the concept validated their desire to control and dominate the people they deemed as belonging to a lesser race.

Question 9

Antisemitism

Answer 9

Prejudice against or hostility towards Jewish people

Question 10

Patriarchy

Answer 10

A political system where men are categorised as superior and dominate women.

Question 11

Structural inequalities

Answer 11

When societies, organisations, or groups are organised to systemically benefit some categories of people and disadvantage some categories of people.

Question 12

Oppression

Answer 12

The experience of being under the excessive authority of another.

Question 13

Psychological oppression

Answer 13

When a person internalises the idea that they’re inferior because of the stereotypes attached to their group.

Question 14

Racialisation

Answer 14

A process of being identified as a racial category and treated accordingly.

Question 15

Double bind

Answer 15

Where a person is faced with two undesirable options.

Question 16

Liberation psychology

Answer 16

An approach in psychology which aims to work alongside marginalised people to address social inequality and oppression.

Question 17

Participatory approach

Answer 17

Approaches which are led by the people most directly affected by an issue of interest.

Question 18

Narrative therapy

Answer 18

An approach to psychological therapy which focuses on the kind of stories people tell about their lives.

Question 19

Praxis

Answer 19

A combination of theory and practice.

Question 20

Apartheid

Answer 20

Policy>racial segregation+political+economic discrimination against non-european people in South Africa