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PSYC 3430 Chapter 13
Prejudice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| social categorization | the classification of persons into groups on the basis of common attributes; ex: age, gender, and race |
| discrimination | unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group solely because of his or her membership in that group |
| prejudice | A hostile or negative attitude toward a distinguishable group of people, based solely on their membership in that group; it contains cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components. |
| stereotypes | a generalization about a group of people in which certain traits are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members. |
| cognitive misers | a term that conveys the human tendency to avoid expending effort and cognitive resources when thinking and to prefer seizing on quick and easy answers to questions |
| Implicit Association Test (IAT) | A test that measures the speed with which people can pair a target face (ex: Black or White, old or young, Asian or White) with positive or negative stimuli (ex: the words honest or evil) reflecting unconscious (implicit) prejudices |
| self-fulfilling prophecy | an expectation of one's own or another person's behavior that comes true because of the tendency of the person holding it to act in ways that bring it about |
| social identity threat | the threat elicited when people perceive that others are evaluating them as a member of their group instead of as an individual |
| instituational discrimination | Practices that discriminate, legally or illegally, against a minority group by virtue of its ethnicity, gender, culture, age, sexual orientation, or other target of societal or company prejudice |
| normative conformity | the tendency to go along with the group in order to fulfill the group's expectations and gain acceptance |
| social identity | the part of a person's self-concept that is based on his or her identification with a nation, religious or political group, occupation, or other social affiliation |
| ethnocentrism | the belief that one's own ethnic group, nation, or religion is superior to all others |
| in-group bias | the tendency to favor members of one's own group and give them special preference over people who belong to other groups; the group can be temporary and trivial, as well as significant. |
| out-group homogeneity | The perception that individuals in the out-group are more similar to each other (homogeneous) than they really are, as well as more similar than members of the in-group are |
| victim blaming | the tendency to blame individuals (make dispositional attributions) for their victimization, typically motivated by a desire to see the world as a fair place. |
| realistic conflict theory | The idea that limited resources lead to conflict between groups and result in increased prejudice and discrimination |
| Interdependence | the situation that exists when two or more groups need to depend on one another to accomplish a goal that is important to each of them |
| jigsaw classroom | A classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice and raise the self-esteem of children by placing them in small, multiethnic groups and making each child dependent on the other children in the group to learn the course material and do well in the class |
| stereotype threat | the experience of anxiety in a situation in which a person has the potential to confirm a negative stereotype about his or her social group. |
| publication bias | journals are more likely to publish studies with statistically significant results than those that have null results |
| Minority Stress Model | there are situational factors unrelated to one’s minority group membership that are sources of general stress that affect people’s well-being |
| Coping | effort to regulate emotion, cognition, behavior, or physiology in response to events or circumstances appraised as stressful |
| problem-focused coping | Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor. |
| emotional focused coping | attempting to reduce stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction |
| collective actions | an action that individuals undertake as psychological group members, and with the subjective goal to improve their group's conditions; ex: Black Lives Matter, Me Too movement |
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