A negative evaluation of people based solely on their membership in a particular group.
What is Prejudice?
100
Schemas applied to members of a social group. (Cheerleader, hipster, nurse, etc.)
What is a stereotype?
100
Negative behavior or harmful action against individuals based solely on their group membership.
What is Discrimination?
100
How we infer the cause of events or behaviors.
What is attribution theory?
100
How favorably people view themselves.
What is self-esteem?
200
The ABC's of Prejudice
What is:
- Affect (emotion; usually a negative feeling)
- Behavior (discrimination)
- Cognition (stereotypes)
200
We are more likely to use our stereotypes when our mental ability is ...?
What is reduced?
200
Used minimal groups to observe how people interact based on their membership to a group.
Who is Jane Elliot?
200
The tendency to believe that peoples behavior matches their dispositions.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
200
Mere contact between groups is not sufficient enough to reduce prejudice.
What is contact hypothesis?
300
Measures the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representation of objects (concepts) in memory/
What is the Implicit Association Test (IAT)?
300
Asians are good at math or African Americans are good at sports.
What is a positive stereotype?
300
slights or "put-downs" directed at minorities.
What are microaggressions?
300
A global evaluation of an object, person, or issue.
What is an attitude?
300
List the 5 steps to helping:
What is:
1. notice something is happening
2. interpret event as emergency
3. take responsibility
4. know how to help
5. provide help
400
The fundamental attribution error on a group level.
What is the ultimate attribution error?
400
The tendency to recognize and differentiate between faces of our own more easily than faces of another race.
What is Own-Race Bias?
400
1. categorize world into in-groups and out-groups
2. derive self-esteem from our identity as group members
3. self-esteem depends partly on how we view on in-groups compared to out-groups.
What is Social Identity Theory?
400
When we have 2 thoughts or behaviors that are psychologically inconsistent, but simultaneously available.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
400
people are less likely to help the more people are present.
What is the bystander effect?
500
The most blatant form of stereotyping and discrimination. ("Whites and Black should not be allowed to marry")
What is old-fashioned racism?
500
A sense that "they" are all alike and different from us.
What is the Outgroup Homogeneity Effect?
500
The experience of concern about being evaluated based on negative stereotypes about one's group.
What is Stereotype Threat?
500
A classroom setting used to reduce prejudice and raise self-esteem.