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Ch 13: Prejudice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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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