Stereotype & Prejudice ⚖️
A general belief about a group of people is called this.
What is a Stereotype?
One of these is changed, while the other is measured.
What are Independent and Dependent Variables?
This is the process of picking one option over another.
What is decision-making?
People only search for information that supports their beliefs due to this bias.
What is Confirmation Bias?
This is the mental process we use to remember information, such as recalling a friend's phone number.
What is memory?
This is when people treat someone unfairly because of their group membership, such as race, gender, or religion.
What is prejudice?
A study that follows the same people over a long period of time is called this.
What is a Longitudinal Study?
his is the feeling of happiness or satisfaction you get after making a good decision.
What is well-being?
This occurs when a participant’s responses are influenced by the researcher’s subtle cues or expectations.
What is experimenter bias?
This type of memory helps you remember information for a short time, like a phone number you just heard.
What is short-term memory?
This is the act of assuming that everyone in a certain group shares the same qualities, like thinking all teenagers are rebellious.
What is generalization?
This research method involves asking people questions to gather information about their thoughts and behavior.
What is a survey?
This effect causes people to think someone else will help in an emergency, leading them to not take action themselves.
What is the bystander effect?
This bias occurs when the sample of participants in a study is not representative of the larger population.
What is sampling bias?
This is the ability to focus on one thing while ignoring distractions around you.
What is selective attention?
One of these biases is conscious, while the other is unconscious.
What are Explicit and Implicit Bias?
Scientists use this type of study to prevent bias.
What is a Double-Blind Study?
The belief that one “knew it all along” after an event is caused by this bias.
What is Hindsight Bias?
This bias involves interpreting ambiguous data in a way that supports the researcher's preferred outcome.
What is researcher bias?
This is the process by which we store and recall information for later use.
What is encoding?
Fear of confirming a stereotype can lead to this.
What is Stereotype Threat?
This is the term for testing whether an experiment's results are repeatable over time.
What is reliability?
Motivation that comes from enjoyment rather than rewards is called this.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
When a good impression of someone influences other judgments, it’s called this effect.
What is the Halo Effect?
This is the term for a quick and automatic decision-making shortcut that helps us make judgments faster.
What is a heuristic?