Environmental Influences
3 environmental factors in shaping adolescent racial biases
What are demographics, culture, and communities?
Name five factors that affect social influence amongst groups
What are prior preferences, size, proximity, informational sources, and normative sources?
The theory that explains the two systems in which people process information and make decisions
What is the Cognitive Experiential Self-Theory?
Encourages people in non diverse cities to mimic in-group behaviors
What is sharing a common set of utility functions or shared preferences?
Implications prior preferences make for racist behavior
What are friend groups and families exhibit shared common interests giving perceived credence to race perspectives?
Two closely linked media effects explained by the network model of memory
What are media priming and cultivation?
Effect of limited exposure to other cultures impact on individual’s understanding of diversity
What is reinforcing cultural biases and inhibiting their ability to navigate diverse social environments?
Differences between informational sources and normative sources
What are informational sources based on an individual’s desire to correctly interpret observational data and normative sources based on the desire to obtain social approval?
A digital social media tool that can further cultivation
What are social media algorithms?
Learning how to behave based on what is accepted by society and peers
What is social conditioning?