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Prejudice, Stereo,di
Social Psychology Exam 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is prejudice? | refers to a prejudging fixed attitude |
| what is discrimination? | an actual behavior that is taken by an individual that is unfavorable towards a person |
| what is stereotype? | applying a common label or a set of characteristics to all members of a certain category |
| what is stereotype threat? | fear that one will be viewed/treated in a way consistent with a negative stereotype - tends to have an immediate negative effect on performance |
| what is symbolic interactionism? | we have prejudice + inequality because of labels |
| what is selective perception? | when labels lead us to see certain things but blind us to other things |
| what is the self-fulfilling prophecy? | if we treat people differently we might get different results |
| what is the black vs white | black is seen as negative while white is seen as positive |
| what does language mean in our society? | language in our society can perpetuate male dominance by trivializing, sexualizing or ignoring women. |
| what is socialization? | we may learn prejudice attitudes/discriminatory behaviors during our socialization |
| what is the frustration/scape goat theory? | when the cause of our frustration is intimidating or unknown, we often redirect our hostility. |
| what are authoritarian personalities? | dismissive to authority and ambiguity disturbs them |
| what is in group bias? | self-serving bias at the group/societal category level. can also lead us to commit the fundamental attribution error towards outgroups |
| what is spontaneous categorization? | an easy and efficient way for our brains to rely on stereotypes |
| what is out group homogeneity effect? | the perception of out group member as more similar to one another than in group members |
| what is the conflict theory / group conflict theory? | the idea that society is composed of groups / social categories that engage in fierce competition over scarce resources, and once a group is at the top of the social ladder they want to stay up there. |
| what is institutional discrimination/racism/gender discrimination? | the established, customary ways society's institutions operate to keep those in minority statuses subordinate / in a subordinate social position |
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