Definitions
Beliefs that certain attributes are characteristic of members of certain groups.
What are Stereotypes?
Janani thinks that all OSU students are rude and unkind.
What is prejudice?
Prejudice directed at racial groups that exists alongside the rejection of explicitly racist beliefs.
What is modern racism?
An experimental paradigm in which researchers create groups based on arbitrary or meaningless criteria and examine intergroup behavior.
What is the Minimal Group Paradigm?
Favorable or unfavorable actions directed toward members of a group
What is discrimination?
People are more likely to think of salt when they hear the word pepper.
What is the priming effect?
The idea that a person's self concept and self esteem derive from the status and accomplishments of the various groups they belong to.
What is Social Identity Theory?
A test that reveals subtle, nonconscious biases.
What is the Implicit Association Test?
Refers to an attitudinal and affective response towards a group and its individual members.
What is Prejudice?
A theory that explains why the success of Valintina's soccer team is so important to her self concept.
What is Social Identity Theory?
Group conflict, prejudice, and discrimination are likely to arise from conflict over limited resources.
What is Realistic Group Conflict Theory?
an educational approach that encourages cooperation and reduces prejudice by having students work in diverse groups, where each member learns a unique piece of information.
What is the Jigsaw Classroom?
The presentation of information designed to activate a concept and hence make it accessible.
What is priming?
Jena has a "coexist" sticker on her laptop but she tells her coworker that her hijab is "unprofessional"
Modern Racism
Seemingly positive sterotypes that reinforce traditional gender roles (Glick & Fiske)
What is benevolent sexism?
A 1954 study that examined two groups of boys at a summer camp and found that competition fostered hostility, while shared goals encouraged cooperation and reduced conflict.
What is the Robbers Cave Experiment?
A goal that transcends the interests of any one group and that can be achieved more readily by two or more groups working together.
What are Superordinate Goals?
Sam assumes that all MSU students are subpar athletes and academics. While he sees UM students having a diverse range of skills.
What is the outgroup homogenity effect?
The ABCs of prejudice
What are affect, behavior, and cognition?
What is one strategy to reduce prejudice?
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