Week 6 - Prejudice etc.

Question 1

Outgroup homogeneity effect

Answer 1

The tendency to assume that there is greater similarity among members of outgroups than among members of ingroups.

Question 2

Ingroup favouritism

Answer 2

The tendency to discriminate in favour of ingroups over outgroups.

Question 3

Social identity theory

Answer 3

The theory that people favour ingroups over outgroups in order to enhance their self-esteem

Question 4

Social dominance orientation

Answer 4

A desire to see one’s ingroup as dominant over other groups, and a willingness to adopt cultural values that facilitate oppression over other groups.

Question 5

System justification theory

Answer 5

A theory that proposes that people are motivated (at least in part) to defend and justify the existing social, political and economic conditions

Question 6

Stereotype content model

Answer 6

A model proposing that the relative status and competition between groups influence group stereotypes along the dimensions of competence and warmth.

Question 7

Social role theory

Answer 7

The theory that small gender differences are magnified in perception by the contrasting social roles occupied by men and women.

Question 8

Illusory correlation

Answer 8

An overestimate of the association between variables that are only slightly or not at all correlated.

Question 9

Subliminal presentation

Answer 9

A method of presenting stimuli so faintly or rapidly that people do not have any conscious awareness of having been exposed to them

Question 10

Stigmatised

Answer 10

Persistently being stereotyped, perceived as deviant and devalued in society due to being a member of a particular social group or possessing a particular characteristic.
Being

Question 11

Stereotype threat

Answer 11

The experience of concern about being evaluated based on negative stereotypes about one’s group.

Question 12

Superordinate goal

Answer 12

A shared goal that can be achieved only through cooperation among individuals or groups.

Question 13

Realistic conflict theory

Answer 13

The theory that hostility between groups is caused by direct competition for limited resources.

Question 14

Relative deprivation

Answer 14

Feelings of discontent aroused by the belief that one fares poorly compared with others.

Question 15

Modern racism

Answer 15

A form of prejudice that surfaces in subtle ways when it is safe, socially acceptable and easy to rationalise.

Question 16

Aversive racism

Answer 16

Racism that concerns the ambivalence between fair-minded attitudes and beliefs, and unconscious and unrecognised prejudicial feelings and beliefs.

Question 17

Implicit race-based bias

Answer 17

Race-based bias that operates unconsciously and unintentionally.