module 11 Flashcards

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prejudice

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  • negative attitude and affective response toward a group and individual members
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automatic activation of stereotypes

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  • Devine in 1989
  • assessed 3 questions to distinguish between high and low prejudiced ppl
  • are there differences in stereotype familiarity?, are there differences in stereotype activation?, are there differences in response to stereotype activation?
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modern vs old fashioned racism

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  • old fashioned: not socially accepted, no laws to prevent it
  • modern: 3 main tenets, doesnt think that racism is a problem anymore (denial that there is cont. discrimination, resentment abt demands that disadvantaged groups make for equal treatment, and resentment abt concessions made to disadvantaged groups)
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Adverse racism

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  • subtle form of prejudice
  • rejecting explicitly racist beliefs, yet experiencing an enduring prejudice against racial groups
  • will say they have egalitarian views
  • when racism is non-over they may discriminate
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behavioural consequences

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  • avoidance of outgroup members, subtle discrimination
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IAT

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  • implicit association test
  • measured outside of awareness
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how do you measure attitudes or stereotypes

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  • self-report (not accurate)
  • Implicit association test (IAT)
  • priming
  • creating groups in the lab (minimal group paradigm)
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minimal group paradigm

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  • seemingly meaningless group differences matter
  • in group favouritism
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causes of stereotypes

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  • economic perspectives
  • motivational perspectives
  • cognitives perspectives
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economic perspectives on stereotypes

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  • realistic conflict theory
  • competition for limited resources
  • resources can be economic, political or social
  • may not be real competition
  • relative deprivation theory (ppl believe they have less than they deserve)
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motivational perspectives on stereotypes

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  • social identity theory (ppl favour ingroups over outgroups to enhance their own self-esteem)
  • derogating outgroups to bolster self-esteem
  • frustration/aggression theory
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cognitives perspectives on stereotyping

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  • cognitive misers (conserving mental resources)
  • construal processes and biased assessments (illusory correlations, outgroup homogeneity effect ‘they are all alike’, and accentuation of ingroup similarity and outgroup differences)
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illusory correlations

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  • seeing relationships between two variables that aren’t really there
  • distinctive events capture attention (becomes over-represented in memory)
    -negative and minority events are distinctive
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what happens if people encounter ppl who contradict stereotypes

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  • subtype (see the person as a special case)
  • revise/get rid of stereotype
  • the more a person deviates from the stereotype, the less likely it is the change the stereotype
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