Prejudice and Discrimination Flashcards
What is Prejudice
an unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members. • Prejudice is a 3 part mixture of: Prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action.
What is Stereotypes
a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people.
What is Ethnocentrism
assuming the superiority of one’s ethnic group
What is Discrimination
unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members.
What is Just-world phenomenon
the tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get
What is the Ingroup
“Us”—people with whom we share a common identity
What is the outgroup
“Them”—those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup.
What is Ingroup Bias
the tendency to favor our own group
What is the Scapegoat Theory
the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.
What is the Other-Race Effect
he tendency to recall faces of one’s own race more accurately than faces of other races. Also called the cross-race effect or the own-race bias.
What is Hindsight Bias
the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (Also known as the I-knew-it-all along phenomenon.)
