social psychology chapter 11

___ approaches to stereotyping and prejudice examine these things from a perspective of group survival

functional

We talked about some of these earlier in the section on attitudes, measures that try to get at your automatic expressions of prejudice are called implicit measures. And one of the most well-known is the ______

implicit association test

discrimination is the ____ component of intergroup bias.

behavioral

Stereotypes are the ____ component of intergroup bias.

cognitive

___ approaches to stereotyping and prejudice reflect the way the brain processes info

cognitive

Prejudice is the ____ component of intergroup bias.

affective

____ refers to unfair actions toward others based solely on their social group membership.

Discrimination

____ prejudice refers to overt and hostile expressions of some group's superiority over other groups. Now, back in the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, when race relations were very tense in the United States, this prejudice was much more normative

Old fashioned

____ refers to feelings associated with different social groups. These can be positive or negative

Prejudice

____ are beliefs about the qualities or traits associated with social groups.

Stereotypes

A way of helping groups that are competing against each other overcome their differences and get along is by introducing ____ which are shared goals that override group differences and require members of different groups to cooperate with one another in order to accomplish the goals.

Superordinate goals

______ consists of positive but patronizing stereotypes and behavior toward women and racial ethnic minority individuals.

benevolent sexism or benevolent racism

___ approaches to stereotyping and prejudice relate to competition and resources

economic

most people in the US today think of ourselves as ____, meaning that most people endorse values of fairness and believe that members of different social groups ought to have equal rights and equal access to resources and status.

egalitarian

women who agitate for social change or seek power and status, such as feminists or activists, are more likely to get hit with ____ directed at them.

hostile sexism

___ approaches to stereotyping and prejudice relate to the idea that prejudice can boost self esteem

motivational

___ approaches to stereotyping and prejudice expressions can be a reflection of norms and can reflect people's need to fit in

normative

What were the findings of the robbers cave studies?

only by introducing these superordinate goals were the researchers able to help the boys overcome the competition that they were experiencing between the different groups.

____ and ____ tend to be moderately positively correlated.

prejudice; stereotypes

an economic approach to intergroup bias is ____. This is a theory proposing that stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination arise when groups have to compete against each other for access to limited resources, such as food supplies, clean water, oil, jobs, status, and so on and so on.

realistic group conflict theory

the links between ____ and discrimination is substantially weaker than the links between ____ and discrimination

stereotypes; prejudice

Modern racism and sexism is a ____ form of racism and sexism, consisting of explicit rejection of prejudiced beliefs, combined with feelings of resentment toward people of color and women, and denial of continued mistreatment of members of those groups.

subtle

what are the correlations between cotton prices and lynchings in the U.S. south?

when cotton prices were falling lower, lynchings were increasing as a violent expression of this intergroup conflict