Prejudice and discrimination Flashcards
the tendency to blame individuals (make dispositional attributions) for their victimisation, typically motivated by a desire to see the world as a fair place:
Blaming the victim
Unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group solely because of his or her membership in that group:
Discrimination
The tendency to see relationships, or correlations, between vents that are actually unrelated:
Illusory correlation
Practices that discriminate legally of illegally, against a minority group by virtue of its ethnicity, gender, culture, age, sexual orientation, or other target of societal or company prejudice:
Institutional discrimination
Racist attitudes that are held by the vast majority of people living in a society where stereotypes and discrimination are the norm:
Institutionalised racism
Sexist attitudes that are held by the vast majority of people living in a society where stereotypes and discrimination are the norm:
Institutionalised sexism
A classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice and raise the self-esteem of children by placing them in small, desegregated groups and making each child dependent on the other children in the group to learn the course material and do well in the class:
Jigsaw classroom
Outwardly acting unprejudiced while inwardly maintaining prejudiced attitudes:
Moden racism
The situation that exists when two or more groups need to depend on on another to accomplish a goal that is important for each of them:
mutual interdependence
The tendency to go along with the group in order to fulfil the group’s expectations and gain acceptance:
Normative conformity
The perception that individuals in the out-group are more similar to each other (homogenous) than they really are, as well as more similar than members of the in-group are:
Out-group homogeneity
A hostile or negative attitude toward people in a distinguishable group, based solely on their membership of that group:
Prejudice
The idea that limited resources lead to conflict between groups and result in increased prejudice and discrimination:
Realistic conflict theory
The tendency for individuals, when frustrated or unhappy, to displace aggression onto groups that are disliked, visible, and relatively powerless:
scapegoating
The case wherein people have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act toward that person, which causes that person to behave consistently with people’s original expectations, making the expectation come true:
self-fulfilling prophecy
