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Stangor Chp 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The positive or negative beliefs that we hold about members of social groups. | stereotypes |
| An an unjustifiable negative attitude toward an outgroup, or toward the members of that outgroup. | Prejudice |
| Unjustified negative behaviors toward members of outgroups based on their group membership. | discrimination |
| The perception that members of outgroups are not human beings. | dehumanize |
| The natural cognitive process of placing individuals into social groups according to their social categories (as men versus women, old people versus young people, etc.) | social categorization |
| The tendency to view members of outgroups as more similar to each other than we see members of ingroup | outgroup homogeneity |
| procedure, designed to elicit more honest responses, experimenter first convinces the participants that have access to their “true” beliefs. Once the participants are convinced, they are assumed to be more honest on the rest of the questions | bogus pipeline procedure |
| procedure designed to get honest, implicit beliefs--sort stimuli into 2 categories, pressing button w/ left hand and another with right--categories arranged so answers with left and right buttons, match the stereotype or mismatch the stereotype | Implicit Association Test (IAT) |
| Performance decrements that are caused by the knowledge of cultural stereotypes. | stereotype threat |
| The tendency to respond more positively to our ingroups than we do to outgroups. | ingroup favoritism |
| The tendency for competing groups to perceive the other groups extremely and unrealistically negatively. | ultimate attribution error |
| An individual difference measures of the tendency to prefer things to be simple, rather than complex, and tend to hold traditional values more generally. | Authoritarianism |
| An individual difference measures that assesses the tendency to see and justifiy inequality among different social groups | Social Dominance Orientation |
| The prediction that people who have friends from other social groups will be more accepting of all members of those groups. | extended-contact hypothesis |
| The experience of social identity that occurs when differences in social grouping at one level are reduced by perceived similarities on a second, superordinate, category. | common ingroup identity |