Prejudice discrimination and agression Flashcards

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Stereotype

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Overgeneralized mental schemas about a group of people based only on their membership in a group not on any individual characteristics

These can be false or can contain an element of truth

Simplified assumption based on prior life experiences

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Prejudice

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Unjustified negative attitude about a group of people based on their membership in the group

Feelings may influence treatment of others, leading to discrimination

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Racism

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Categorization of a person or group of people based on their race or ethnicity and the systematic mistreatment of people in a targeted group

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Discrimination

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Unjustified negative behavior toward members of a target group (Individual level) based on their race, ethnicity, or other shared characteristics

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Stereotype threat

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A situation in which people feel at risk of performing as their group is expected to perform

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In-groups

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Group that we identify with “us” or see ourselves as belonging to (gender, race, age, social economic group)

Provide powerful source of our identity and self esteem

Strong sense of belonging and emotional connection

Develop in group bias, your group is better because its yours

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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Expectation held by a person that alters his or her behavior in a way that tends to make it true

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Gordon Allport

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Connected scapegoating with feelings of prejudice, gives people a target to blame for their problems and more of a sense of control over their lives

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Scapegoat theory

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Members of a group in power hold members of a less powerful group responsible for their problems

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Ethnocentrism

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Tendency to use your own culture as the standard by which to judge and evaluate other cultures

Belief that your society group, or culture is superior to all others

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Out-groups

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Social groups with whom a person does not identify; “them”

dividing the world into “us” and “them” entails racism and war

to be an out group for you you have to have an outside interaction with

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Contact hypothesis

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Bringing members from different groups together will reducie prejudice (exposure) improve positive attitudes.

Those in authority firmly endorse integration

Competition among groups is absent

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Out group homogeneity

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The tendency for us to view members of out group as being more similar, or homogenous, than members of in groups that we belong to

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Superordinate goals

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Shared goals that override differences among people and require cooperation

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