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Psych 495 Ch 08 Defs
Definitions from Chapter 08
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| attractiveness bias | preference for attractive faces, evident as young as 2 months of age and possibly even newborns under a week |
| "beauty is good" | the perception that people who are physically attractive also have positive psychological characteristics such as intelligence or kindness. |
| doll technique | giving children black and white dolls and asking them to choose color or other values |
| category preference | (children) select or prefer one group over another, which could have meanings other than negative values |
| forced choice method | a metric that tells the participant to choose one among options |
| continuous measure | a type of measure that tells participants to make a choice that falls along a scale |
| sociometric ratings | measures in which children are asked about interactions |
| best friends procedure | a method in which children choose their best friends out of a list of all classmates |
| roster and ratings procedure | a metric in which children rank all classmates on a continuous scale |
| gender constancy | the understanding that gender is more permanent than changes in hairstyle, clothing, behavior or age |
| homosociality | the tendency to interact only with members of one's own sex |
| social learning theory | explanation for many aspects of social development ***look up better definition*** |
| inner state theories | theories of individual differences such as personality causing prejudice |
| cognitive developmental theories | theories of prejudice which hold that children's intergroup attitudes reflect ability to think about and understand the nature of social groups and intergroup relations |
| developmental intergroup theory | theory that the development of prejudice is a byproduct of the normal process of cognitive development through which children come to understand the world and its rules |
| category constancy | the understanding that a person's membership in a social category does not change across time or as a matter of superficial changes |
| essentialism | the belief that members of a category all have similar psychological characteristics that are unchanging |
| anti-bias education | teaching that aims to provide students with heightened awareness of institutionalized racism and bias and the skills to reduce it |
| cooperative learning | educational techniques devised to create group learning environments which implement contact conditions needed to reduce prejudice as part of the day to day process |
| multicultural education | umbrella term for programs designed to teach students abobt the ethnic, racial, religious, and other groups in society |
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