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Pysch Chp 8

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show An evaluation a person makes about an object, person, group event or issue. This definition indicates that we can form attitudes towards anything.  
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show The affective component refers to the emotional reactions or feelings an individual has towards an object, person, group, event or issue.  
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Behavioural Component   show
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Cognitive Component   show
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show A stereotype is a collection of beliefs that we have about the people who belong to a certain group, regardless of individual differences among members of that group.  
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show Prejudice is often defined as holding a negative attitude towards the members of a group, based solely on their membership of that group.  
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Discrimination   show
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Old fashioned prejudice   show
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Modern prejudice   show
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Intergroup contact (in reducing prejudice)   show
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Sustained contact (in reducing prejudice)   show
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Mutual interdependence (in reducing prejudice)   show
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Super-ordinate goals (in reducing prejudice)   show
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show When members of 2 groups perceive their own group and the other group as being equally important, they would be described as having an equality of status.  
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show Cognitive intervention involves changing the way in which someone thinks about prejudice. e.g. asking a prejudice person to consider prejudice from the victim's perspective or to have their negative stereotypes challenged or broken down.  
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Cognitive Dissonance   show
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Racial segregation   show
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Contact hypothesis (in reducing prejudice)   show
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Inconsistent Attitude   show
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