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Psych 495 Ch 6 Defs
Definitions from Chapter 06
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| bogus pipeline research | a research method in which participants are led to believe researchers have an accurate lie detector; this leads participants to greater truthfulness to avoid being caught in a lie |
| Jim Crow racism | white prejudice against blacks in the South, post Civil War, that was not only embedded in social mores but also codified into law |
| implicit prejudices | negative emotions associated w/steretoypes that can be assessed through implicit cognition and some behavioral measures |
| symbolic racism | set of beliefs about black people as an abstract group rather than an individuals; portray blacks as morally inferior for violating traditional "American" (read 'white') values |
| old fashioned racism | belief in biological inferiority of ideals, the attendant stereotypes, informal and formal discrimination |
| modern racism (prejudice) | distinguished from symbolic racism to highlight the contemporary post civil rights movement nature of the tenets |
| racial resentment | facet of modern symbolic racism highlighting that some white racial attitudes come from perception of black violation of traditional values |
| socialization | learning one's culture in childhood by being directly taught what is important and by observing and imitating adults |
| racialized | the perception that black people fail to live by traditional (white) american values of hard work, individualism, self-reliance, self-restraint, etc, by accepting public assistance, seeking government favors, acting impulsively, etc. |
| egalitarianism | a value system that reflects the belief that all people are equal and should be treated identically |
| laissez-faire racism | opposition to social programs designed to increase equality, which maintains status quo of race relations, makes racism about economics |
| aversive racism (or prejudice) | the attitude of trying to ignore the existence of black people, tries to avoid contact with them and at most be polite, correct and cold in any necessary dealings. |
| ambivalent prejudice | white people have both positive and negative attitudes about black people, and so the net attitude is a mixture |
| response amplification | behavior toward a stigmatized person that is more extreme than behavior toward a similar but nonstigmatized person in a similar situation. |
| hostile prejudice | the 'traditional' form of prejudice, expressed in terms of negative beliefs about and emotional response to targets of prejudice |
| benevolent prejudice | prejudice that is expressed in terms of apparently positive beliefs and emotional responses to targets of prejudice |
| modern symbolic prejudice | umbrella term, encompassing symbolic racism, modern racism, racial resentment and laissez-faire racism |
| moral credentials | using benevolent prejudices as an indicator that there is no prejudice, 'allowing' the negative stereotypes that often correlate. |
| positive prejudice | the intersection of warmth and competence in stereotype perception per the stereotype content model; reason for ingroup biases. |
| envious prejudice | a form of hostile prejudice, using the stereotype content model, that involves perceiving a group as competent but not warm, so representing a threat to ingroup's political and economic power. |
| contemptuous prejudice | a form of hostile prejudice using the stereotype content model, that involves perceiving a group as neither competent nor warm, and thus eminently dislikeable |
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