Week 9 Prejudice Discriminations

Question 1

Prejudice

Answer 1

An unfavourable attitude towards a social group and its members

Question 2

Discrimination

Answer 2

behaivoural expression of prejudice

Question 3

Stereotype

Answer 3

A widely shared and simplified evaluative image of a social group and its
members

Question 4

Stigma

Answer 4

group attribute that leads to a negative evaluation (balck, obese)

Question 5

Transmission of prejudice

Answer 5

Via

• parental modelling
• instrumental conditioning
• classical conditioning

Question 6

Why do stigmas persist

Answer 6

1) Decrease in the value of a group

2) Downward comparison target

Question 7

Transmissions from parents

Answer 7

• Prejudices are not born but learned

ex: 5-10 English children in the 1980s who liked more French and Spanish more than Italian and German

Question 8

Sex stereotype show that

Answer 8

Both men and women believe that

• men are competent and independent
• women are warm and expressive

Question 9

Age stereotypes in the workplace

Answer 9

• Poor performance
• Resistance to change
• Lower ability to learn
• (Youngers) are Less commited

Question 10

Stereotype threat

Answer 10

feeling that we will be judged and treated according to the
stereotypes of our group, and that we will confirm these stereotypes
through our behaviour

Question 11

3 stages of stereotype threats

Answer 11

• Awareness of negative judgement
• Focusing on the
  stereotype
• Behaving according to the stereotype

Question 12

Superordinate goal

Answer 12

Leads to an increase in collaboration and improvement in attitude towards other group when goal is achieved

But more negative attitute towards other group if goal is not achieved