Definitions
An attitude or affective response toward a group and it's individual members.
What is prejudice?
What is modern racism?
Favorable or unfavorable treatment of individuals based on their membership to a particular group.
What is discrimination?
John has been laid off work for the past year and when he comes across a Mexican cashier, he starts yelling that building a wall on the border is the answer to securing jobs for himself and his fellow Americans.
What is realistic group conflict theory?
Beliefs that certain attributes are characteristics of members of a particular group.
What are stereotypes?
In the Robbers Cave experiment the boys coming together and using the tug of war rope to move the truck is an example of what?
A technique for revealing nonconscious attitudes towards different stimuli, particularly groups of people.
What is implicit association test (IAT)?
This assignment is an example of a _________.
What is jigsaw classroom?
A diversity ideology that encourages the acknowledgement and appreciation of peoples unique cultural and ethnic identities.
What is multiculturalism?
Adam wears his Pirates jersey to work the day after they won against their conference rivals telling everyone, "This is the year WE go all the way". Yet he tends to pick the team apart and highlight everything THEY did wrong when they lose.
What is basking in reflected glory?
The tendency to notice what confirms our stereotypes and ignore what doesn't.
What is biased processing?
Mary is adamant that she doesn't see people's race but rather gets to know each person individually before making judgements on them. However, in her attempt to be fair and equal anytime her roommate Claire talks about her Day of the Dead traditions she blows her off and changes the subject declaring that she is more than where she came from. This is a negative side effect of what ideology?
What is color-blindness?
Glorifying your own group while putting down members of another group.
What is ethnocentrism?
Participants are randomly assigned to a group and then told they are in either group A or group B with no other identifying qualities and they never get to see any members of either group. After a series of questions where they had to split prizes between members of the two groups but would not receive any of the prize themselves, group A tended to give more prizes to their own group whereas group B tended to give more prizes to their own.
What is minimal group paradigm?
Equal group status, interdependence, and community support are all needed for the successful completion of ____________.
What is Contact Hypothesis?
Emma's dad reminds her not to get discouraged if she doesn't do as well as the rest of her class on her physical fitness test for the local fire station because she's a girl and isn't supposed to be as strong or as fast as the men. Emma can't stop thinking about her dad's words and makes many minor mistakes she normally wouldn't make during her test.
What is a stereotype threat?
The tendency to view ourselves more favorably when a group we belong to is doing well.
What is social identity theory?
Will thinks all black men are aggressive, but when he meets Mike a fellow classmate who happens to be black and finds him to be the most docile and levelheaded in the class, he justifies the difference by rationalizing that Mike grew up in Canada and that Canadians are known for being more friendly than most.
What is subtyping?
The tendency to generalize members of an outlying group as all the same while highlighting the unique differences of the members of your own group.
What is out-group homogeneity effect?
Jared constantly talks down to Mia, his friend Kevins fiancée and makes sure to tell Kevin that he would never put up with his fiancée working and making more money than him because a woman's place is at home cooking, cleaning, and having babies because he doesn't like the fact that Kevin's fiancée makes more money than either of them.
What is hostile sexism?