intergroup relations- stereotyping in its social context

Question 1

what was the Hovland and Sears 1940 study

Answer 1

investigated correlation of people randomly lynched with another aspect

Question 2

what did Hovland and sears find 1940

Answer 2

• correlation between cotton price dropping with increase of lynching

Question 3

why would cotton dropping cause more lynching

Answer 3

• resentment with increased financial issues, taken out on someone seen as ‘lower’

Question 4

what was the sherif studies summer camp

Answer 4

• competition of resources
• how context affects stereotypes

Question 5

what stereotypes were made of group A when group B got donuts after them

Answer 5

• donuts damaged in transport, group B assumed group A damaged them on purpose, causing group B to attack due to misunderstanding

Question 6

in the bean bag task what was found?

Answer 6

• groups over estimated their perfomance and under estimated opposing groups performance

Question 7

what did sherif find stereotypes led to?

Answer 7

• the lens of the group, they percevied them to be worse than they actually were

Question 8

what was the 1954 robbers cave study, discuss events

Answer 8

• 2 seperate groups arrive seperately
• when other group acknowledged wanted competition
• ‘eagles’ and ‘rattlers’, eagles lose competetion and set fire to rattlers flag
• caused retaliation and fights
• showed competition for scarce resources

Question 9

when sherif attempted to ‘blur boundries’ with superordinate goals what failed and worked

Answer 9

• the drinking supply being cut off- failed
• renting a movie and splitting money- failed
• food supply lorry stuck worked

Question 10

what did sherif find when blurring boundries between groups

Answer 10

• groups maintained distancce when participating in joint activities

Question 11

what were stats for in group and outer group friendships before and after boundries blurred

Answer 11

• before 93% friendships said to be ungroup
• after 65% friendships said to be in group
• more intergroup friendship

Question 12

what did higher stat of intergroup friendships show

Answer 12

• steretypes no longer applicable

Question 13

whats the comparison in adorno and sherif studies

Answer 13

• adorno: focused on early childhood development,
• the projection of unconcious onto others
• sherif: emphasised immediate context your in
• when competition introduced steretypes are quick to develop

Question 14

what shaped the perception of other groups?

Answer 14

the categories the boys were put into by other group

Question 15

when camp food was adulterated what was shown

Answer 15

• boys rebelled as a whole group and refused group labels of seperation
• found common ground of being mistreated
• showed power of categorisation, boys refused labels due to common experience

Question 16

what was Minard’s observational experiment and when

Answer 16

• 1952
• interested in variability of context and how steretypes play out in different contexts

Question 17

what were stats of Minards 1952 experiment he found

Answer 17

• 20% racist above and below ground
• 20% liberal and less prejudiced above and below ground
• 60% changed behaviour: above ground showed structured by race, below ground showed shared interest, leading to less prejudices

Question 18

what manipulation was used in the polish categorisation experiment

Answer 18

• the front covers were portrayed differently
• used agree to disagree scale

Question 19

what did polish catholic experiment show

Answer 19

• less warming to polish catholic heritage (as they are protestant)
• saw symbolic threat

Question 20

what kind of study was Minard 1952 and what was observed?

Answer 20

• observational study
• interested in prejudice above ground compared to below in coal mines

Question 21

stats of prejudice from above and below (3 stats)

Answer 21

• 20% racist above and below ground
• 20% liberal and less prejudiced above and below ground
• 60% changed behaviour when above and less prejudiced below ground