Prejudice & Discrimination
A person is giving off negative emotions based on a stereotype
What is prejudice?
During a state basketball game the players do better because of how big the crowd is due to
What is Social Facilitation?
Aggression intended to achieve a goal beyond causing pain.
What is Instrumental Aggression?
The tendency to favor our own group
What is In-group Bias
This theory suggests we infer our attitudes from observing our own behavior.
Self-perception theory
These are generalized beliefs about a group of people
What are stereotypes?
Lily sits back during class on her phone and watch as her peers in her group finish their project is an example of what?
What is Social Loafing?
These are 3 influences on Aggression.
What are situational, construal, and biological factors?
A group of people watches a fight and a guy sees everyone doing nothing and he decides to do nothing as well what is he showing?
What is Bystander Effect?
When attitudes don’t match behavior, this uncomfortable state occurs.
What is cognitive dissonance?
A person says a lady/gentleman is dumb because they are blonde, that person is doing what?
What is stereotyping?
After loosing a house and his job a man decides to go and rob a bank to get the money he needs to get back on his feet. The man is showing what
What is Individuation?
Playing violent video games can increase a person's aggression in each of these ways.
What are hostile thoughts, emotions, behaviors?
2 people don't see eye to eye with one another but they know the only way to get a good grade is to come up with something together. They are showing a...
What is a Superordinate Goal?
Payment of $1 changes attitudes toward a boring task more than $20. This is due to ___ for lying.
What is insufficient justification?
An elderly woman sees that her nurse is from the Philippines and wants to be helped by another nurse. The woman is doing what to the nurse?
What is discriminating?
A group of intelligent English professors come together to write one of the best English papers ever written. This is an example of ...
What is Group Polarization
What are situational factors of aggression?
A person shows less effort within their friend group for a project because they are relying on their peers, the person is doing whtat?
What is Social Loafing?
This occurs when someone increases their liking for something they worked hard to attain, even if it's not that great.
What is effort justification?
This test is often used to measure unconscious biases.
What is the IAT?
Behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and tradition shared by a group of people is defined as
What is Culture?
This hormone is most commonly linked to aggressive behavior.
What is testosterone?
Adjusting out behavior or thinking to concide with a group standard.
What is Conformity?
When people can't change a disappointing outcome, they sometimes distort reality to make it seem more acceptable. This is known as what?
What is rationalization?