random essay prep Flashcards
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ABC
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- ABC model
- affective, behavioural, cognitive
- affective is the feelings on the obj.
- behav refers to the behaviours towards it
- cognitive refers to the knowledge
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attitudes
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- defined as long lasting ideas people hold to themselves, others, objects or issues
- a relatively enduring organisation of beliefs, feelings and behavioural tendencies towards socially significant objectsx groups or symbols) hogs
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how culture influences attitudes
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- attitudes are learnt
- can be acquired many dif wAys
- direct interaction
- exam
- interactions, acquainted unknowlingly as they are beliefs and values of culture
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social values
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- what people in and community believe
- standards in social life and considered to be important
- e.g whites like rel and appearance
- blacks freedom and friendship
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stereotypes
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- form of social categorisation
- identification of a person as a member of a group due to the characteristics they share
- e.g when gary gurl say “they will always hate us” refering to blacks, stereotype all dislike whites
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prejudice
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- a baseless and usually negative attitude towards members of a group
- prejudice usually involves negative feelings
- eg coach yost not wanting to work under boone
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racism
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- based on assumed racial differences
- people in one racial group may believe their values, attitudes, practices and beliefs are superior than others
- white people are better at football than blacks
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discrimination
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- unequal treatment of others who are entitled to same rights as others
- eg. garys girl would not shake julius hand cos he black
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attitudes linked to prejudice
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- prejudice involves all three components of behaviour
- individual has negative attitude, affective = negative feelings to group
- behaviour and cognition are also negative towars group as well
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social influence
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- prejudiced attitudes can be learnt thru important people
- eg garys gurl unwilling to change her opinion on blacks as it is against her social norms and can cause her to be excluded
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intergroup conflict
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- conflict within a group who want to achieve the same goal??
- ## eg. races fighting and competing for a spot in the football team
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social identity
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individuals identify themselves in terms of their groups. therefore characteristics of individuals are described with reference to groups
- eg. gary prejudged to be racist as his group is racist
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intergroup contact
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- constant contact breaks down the barriers between people who had negative stereotypes and those who are being stereotyped upon
- results in more positive attitude
- eg. gary and julius relationship
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cognitive representation
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- can reduce prejudice
- strategy used to change the way people think about others
- individuation
- learning about individual qualities of people and seeig them as individuals and not from the group they belong to
- eg. gary finding out julius has a dad
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superordinate goals
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- two or more parties cooperating to achieve a goal
- team working together, differences put aside to win
