Stereotyping, Prejudice & Discrimination

Question 1

Affect misattribution procedure (AMP)

Answer 1

Priming procedure to access people’s implicit associations to different stimuli, including their associations to various ethnic, racial, occupational and lifestyle groups

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Question 2

Realistic group conflict theory

Answer 2

Competition between groups for limited resources will likely lead to prejudice and discrimination

Question 3

What is ethnocentrism

Answer 3

Glorifying one’s own group while vilifying other groups

Question 4

What happened in competition and intergroup conflict

Answer 4

hostility between the 2 groups

Question 5

What did superordinate goals lead to

Answer 5

cooperation

Question 6

What is a superordinate goal

Answer 6

a goal that transcends the interest of any one in the group and can be achieved more readily by 2 or more groups working together

Question 7

What is the minimal group paradigm

Answer 7

Experimental paradigm in which researchers create groups based on arbitrary and seemingly meaningless criteria and the examine how the members of these “minimal groups” are inclined to behave toward one another

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Question 8

Social identity theory

Answer 8

idea that a person’s self-concept and self-esteem derive not only from personal identity and accomplishments but also from the status and accomplishments of the various groups to which the person belongs

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Question 9

Basking in reflected glory

Answer 9

Taking pride in the accomplishments of other people in one’s group, such as when sports fans identify with a winning team

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Question 10

Paired distinctiveness

Answer 10

The paring of 2 distinctive events stand out even more because they occur together

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Question 11

Subtyping aka subcategorising

Answer 11

explaining away exceptions to a given stereotype by creating a subcategory of the stereotyped group that can be expected to differ from the group as a whole

Question 12

outgroup homogeneity effect

Answer 12

The tendency for people to assume that within-group similarity is much stronger for outgroups than for ingroups

Question 13

Own-race identification bias

Answer 13

the tendency for people to be better able to recognize and distinguish faces from their own race than from other races

Question 14

Stereotype threat

Answer 14

the fear of confirming the stereotypes that others have about one’s group

Question 15

Contact hypothesis

Answer 15

The idea that prejudice can be reduced by putting members of majority and minority groups in frequent contact with one another

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