Finals: Lesson 1

Question 1

• unfavorable attitude towards a social group and its members. Means ‘prejudgement.’ A

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Prejudice

Question 2

• beliefs about a group

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Cognitive

Question 3

• strong feelings (usually negative) about a group and the qualities it is believed to possess;

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Affective

Question 4

• intentions to behave in certain ways towards a group (the ___ component is an intention to act in certain ways, not the action itself).

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Conative

Question 5

• stripping people of their dignity and humanity.

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Dehumanisation

Question 6

• the ultimate expression of prejudice by exterminating an entire social group.

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Genocide

Question 7

• prejudice and discrimination against people based on their gender.

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Sexism

Question 8

• research on sex stereotypes has revealed that both men and women believe that men are competent and independent, and women are warm and expressive.

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Sex Stereotypes

Question 9

• behavior deemed sex stereotypically appropriate.

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Sex Role

Question 10

• mainly applied to the gender gap in leadership because social stereotypes of women are inconsistent with people’s schemas of effective leadership, women are evaluated as poor leaders.

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Role Congruity Theory

Question 11

• gender sex-stereotypical attributes of a person.

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Gender

Question 12

• an invisible barrier that prevents women, and minorities, from attaining top leadership positions.

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Glass Ceiling

Question 13

• a tendency for women rather than men to be appointed to precarious leadership positions associated with a high probability of failure and criticism.

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Glass Cliff

Question 14

• media depiction that gives greater prominence to the head and less prominence to the body for men, but vice versa for women.

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Face-ism

Question 15

• prejudice and discrimination against people based on their ethnicity or race.

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Racism

Question 16

• how close, psychologically or physically, people are willing to get to one another.

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Social Distance

Question 17

• prejudice and discrimination against people based on their age.

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Ageism

Question 18

(born between 1925 and 1945)—Practical, patient, loyal, and hardworking; respectful of authority and rule of followers.

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Traditionalists

Question 19

(born between 1946 and 1960)—Optimistic, values teamwork and cooperation; ambitious and workaholic.

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Baby Boomers

Question 20

(born between 1961 and 1980)—Skeptical self-reliant risk-takers who balance work and personal life.

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Generation X

Question 21

(Generation Y; born between 1981 and 1999)—hopeful, they value meaningful work, diversity, and change; and are technologically savvy.

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Millennials

Question 22

• the practice of publicly making small concessions to a minority group to deflect accusations of prejudice and discrimination.

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Tokenism

Question 23

• the practice of publicly being prejudiced in favor of a minority group to deflect accusations of prejudice and discrimination against that group.

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Reverse Discrimination

Question 24

A set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or a group of people have about something. A mark of shame of discredit and can lead to low self-wroth, self-esteem, and psychological well-being.

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stigma

Question 25

- feeling that we will be judged and treated in terms of negative stereotypes of our group, and that will inadvertently confirm these stereotypes through our behavior.

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Stereotype Threat

Question 26

- expectations and assumptions about a person that influence our interaction with that person and eventually change their behavior in line with our expectations.

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy