Ch 9 Prejudice Flashcards
(22 cards)
prejudice
a preconceived negative judgement of a group and its individual members
stereotype
a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. Sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information.
Discrimination
Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members
racism
An individuals’s prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race, or institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given race.
sexism
An individual’s prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given sex, or institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given sex.
social dominance orientation
a motivation to have one’s group dominate over other social groups
ethnocentric
believing in the superiority of one’s own ethic and cultural group and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups
authoritarian personality
A personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status
realistic group conflict theory
the theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources
social identity
the “we” aspect of our self-concept; the part if our answer to “Who am I?” that comes from out group memberships
ingroup
“us”-a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity
out group
“them”-a group that people perceive as distinctly different from or apart from their ingroup
ingroup bias
the tendency to favor one’s own group
terror management theory
people’s self-protective emotional and cognitive responses (including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldview and prejudices) when confronted w/ reminders of their mortality
outgroup homogeneity effect
perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. Thus “they are alike; we are diverse”
own-race bias/ other race effect
the tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race.
stigma conscientiousness
a person’s expectation of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination
group-serving bias
explaining away outgroup members’ positive behaviors also attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions (while excusing such behavior by one’s own group)
just-world phenomenon
The tendency of people to believe that the world id just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get
subtyping
accommodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by thinking of them as “exceptions from the rule”
subgrouping
accommodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group
stereotype threat
a disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, tat one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. Unlike self-fulfilling prophecies that hammer one’s reputation into one’s self-concept, this has an immediate effect
