test 3 chapter 9 Flashcards
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prejudice
a preconceived judgement of a group and its individual members
stereotype
a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information -and sometimes accurate
discrimination
unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members
implicit cognition
what you know without knowing that you know it
ethnocentric
believing in the superiority of ones own ethnic and cultural group’ and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups
authoritarian personality
a personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of out-groups and those of lower in status
social identity
the”we” aspect of our self-concept the part of our answer to “who am I” that comes from our group membership
ingroup
“us”– a group of people who share a scene of belonging a feeling of common identity
outgroup
“them” – a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their in-group
in-group bias
the tendency to favor owns own group
out-group homogeneity effect
perception of out-group members as more similar to one another then are the group members thus “they are alike we are diverse”
own race bias
the tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race
proud-serving bias
explaining away out-groups members positive behaviors also attributing negative behaviors to their disposition while excusing such behavior by ones own group
just-world phenomenon
the tendency of people to believe the the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get – makes us fell better –provides a buffer – victim blaming
sub-typing
accommodating individuals who deviate from ones stereotype by thinking of them as ‘excepting to the rule”s
sub-grouping
accommodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group
stereotype threat
a self-confirming apprehension that one will be evaluated based on negative stereotype
explicit attitudes
comfortable attaching to yourself – willing to say out loud to group -“old fashioned”
implicit attitudes
keep to your self –might keep from yourself – below concision awareness– hard to measure
