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Prejudice with mark the basketball player (2)
-people thought he was black if he was more ahtletic
-people thought he was white if they were more cerebral player
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Confederates applying for jobs: home vs hetereo results
Employers were less verbally positive spent less time interviewing confederates who portrayed themselves as homosexuals
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How do we reduce intergroup prejudice?) contact hypothesis
Contact between majority and minority group members will decrease prejudice
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How do we reduce intergroup prejudice?) what can result from contact hypothesis?
Inaccurate stereotypes will be disproven
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How do we reduce intergroup prejudice?) what did allport say about contact hypothesis?
- -only when contact occurs between people of equal status in pursuit of common goals
- *good idea but has been hard to prove
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How do we reduce intergroup prejudice?) Contact in robbers cave: what did contact between both groups do?
It created opportunities for aggression amongst one anohter
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How do we reduce intergroup prejudice?) contact at robbers cave: summary of what happened when creating emergencies that forced groups together (2)
-at first after the tasks that forced them to work together, after the task was completed they would go back to fighting.
-eventually the hostility started to decline and became friendship
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What was the initial results from desegregating schools?
Contact between children from different racial groups was not reducing prejudice
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Revised contact hypothesis
- Contact reduces prejudice under certain conditions
- *mere contact is not enough to undermine prejudice
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What are the 6 conditions necessary for contact to reduce prejudice?
-equal status
-personal, informal contact
-common goals
-mutual interdependence
-existing norms must favor group equality
-contact with multiple group members to breakdown stereotypes
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Why was the jigsaw technique successful? (4)
-expert role promotes "equal status"
- -common goal
- *need others to do well on test
- -mutual interdependence
- * need each student to complete the work
-increases informal personal contact with multiple group members nada where norms support contact.
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stereotype change) when a person does not behave consistently with a stereotype...
It can lead to stereotype change
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What is the result of subtyping?
- It can protect the original stereotype and create a subgroup to explain an abnormal behavior
- *ghetto blacks, preppy blacks, country blacks
- *beaners, Mexican americans
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subtyping: Channing stereotypes AND counter stereotypic people
We are less likely to change stereotypes in response to counter-stereotypic people (person that does not fit the stereotype) when we can subtype them easily
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2 ways that can lead to stereotype change if...
- -individual is otherwise typical of the group
- *black dude hood as hell but also polite
-deviation from the stereotype is moderate
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Subtyping more likely if... (3)
- -they discomfirm stereotypes on multiple dimensions
- *girl is assertive and good at math
- -we have other information with which to dismiss the person as atypical
- *she was raised with brothers
- -the deviation from the stereotype is extreme
- *she is extremely aggressive
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4 reasons why prejudice is difficult to change
-affectively based attitudes
-schema consistent processing
-illusory correlations
-subtyping
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Reasons why prejudice is hard to change) affectively based attitude
Logic does not work with people that have strong beliefs
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Reasons why prejudice is hard to change) subtyping
There are exceptions to eveyrhting so they simply label the person as a subgroup
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Reducing prejudice) Allports contact theory (6)
-mutual interdependence
-common goal
-equal status
-informal interpersonal contact
-multiple contacts
-social norms
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3 reasons why jigsaw works?
-breaks down in group and out group categorization
-favor doing situation
-encourages the development of empathy
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If you want to improve relations between people in different groups then do the following 4 things
-establish positive and frequent contact situations
-try to cultivate friendships across group lines
- -approach interactions with an open-mind
- *don't assume people in other groups won't like you
-create shared goals that require cooperation among people from different groups
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Diagram that centers "compare behavior to stereotype": if the behavior matches then it leads to...
stereotype maintained
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Diagram that centers "compare behavior to stereotype": if the behavior mismatches...
Then search for explanation
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Diagram that centers "compare behavior to stereotype": If there is a mismatch and we turn to the situation then...
stereotype is unchanged
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Diagram that centers "compare behavior to stereotype": if we search for explanation for mismatch and turn to person 2 things can occur?
- -atypical member
- *subtyping
- -typical member
- *stereotype change
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