Social Psychology Chapter 9 Prejudice

Racism

an individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race

Social identity

the "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships

Discrimination

unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members

Outgroup

"THEM" a group that people perceive as distinctly different from or apart from their ingroup

Ingroup

"US" a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity.

Group- serving bias

Assigning outgroup member's negative behavior to their natural character while explaining away their positive behaviors

Stereotype

a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. They are overgeneralized, inaccurate, and accurate but based on a kernel of truth.

Social dominance orientation

a motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups

Stigma consciousness

a person's expectation of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination

authoritarian personality

a personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status.

Prejudice

a preconceived negative attitude/judgement of a group and its individual members

Subgrouping

accommodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group.

Subtyping

accommodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by thinking of them as "exceptions to the rule."

Sexism

and individual's prejudicial attitudes toward people of a given sex

ethnocentric

believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups

Terror management theory

people's self-protective emotional and cognitive responses(including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews and prejudices) when confronted with reminders of their mortality.

Outgroup homogeneity effect

perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. Thus, "they are alike, we are diverse."

Own-race bias

the tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race.

Just-world phenonmenon

the tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

Ingroup bias

the tendency to favor one's own group

Realistic group conflict theory

the theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources

Stereotype threat

when people are apprehensive that others will view them stereotypically. Stereotype threat situations have immediate effects.