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Ch 13: Prejudice

TermDefinition
a hostile/negative attitude toward people in a distinguishable group based solely on their membership in that group; it contains cognitive, emotional & behavioral components prejudice
a person know they are prejudice but chooses not to express it in public automatic prejudice
a person holds a prejudice without being aware of it implicit prejudice
a generalization about a group of people in which certain traits are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variable among the members stereotype
have a stereotype & then experience something conflicting with stereotype & now your stereotype has changed conversion model
have stereotype & meet people in that group that doesn’t meet the stereotype (repeating) bookkeeping model
individuals who deviate from the stereotype lead to formation of a new “subset” of the stereotyped group subgrouping model
unjustified negative/harmful action toward a member of a group solely because of their membership in that group discrimination
differences in access to resources/opportunities based solely on group membership social inequality
implicit prejudice that exists along with rejection of explicit racist or sexist beliefs modern racism/sexism
indirect, subtle or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group microaggressions
a test that measure the speed with which people can pair a target face with positive/negative stimuli; reflecting unconscious prejudices implicit association test
the threat elicited with people perceive others are evaluation them as a member of their group instead of as an individual social identity threat
practices that discriminate legally or illegally, against a minority group by virtue of its ethnicity, gender, culture, age, sexual orientation or other target of sociatla/company prejudice institutional discrimination
the tendency to go along with the group in order to fulfill the groups expectations & gain independence normative conformity
the part of a person's self-concept that is based on their identification with a group social identity
the belief that one’s own ethnic group, nation or religion is superior all others ethnocentrism
the tendency to favor members of one’s own group & give them special preference over people who belong in other groups; the group can be temporary or significant in group bias
the perception that individuals in the out-group are more similar to each other, than they really as was well as more similar than members of the in-group are out group homogeneity
the tendency to blame individuals by a desire to see the world as a fair place blaming the victim
the idea that limited resources lead to conflict between groups & result in increased prejudice & discrimination realistic conflict theory
when no clear/logical competitor exists in times of hardship & scarce resources, lash out at outgroup members who are easy targets scapegoating
the view that social interaction between social groups would reduce prejudice contact hypothesis
simply knowing an in-group member has outgroup friends is sufficient to reduce prejudice extended contact effect
getting emotionally connected to & invested in certain characters/celebrities from other groups parasocial contact
vicariously witnessing intergroup contact through vignettes in the news/entertainments vicarious contact
the situation that exists when 2+ people/groups need to depend on one another to accomplish a goal that is important to each of them interdependance
a classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice & raise the self-esteem of children by placing them in small multiethnic groups and making each child dependence on the other children in the group to learn course material jigsaw classroom
individuals who deviate from the stereotype are “exceptions to the rule” subtyping
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