Ch. 9

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Prejudice

pre-concieved judgment of a group
Sterotype

belief about the attributes of a group
Discrimination

negative behaivor toward a group
Racism/Sexism

discriminatory behavior or prejudice against race/gender
Automatic Prejudice

prejudice that happens w/out control
Gender Sterptypes
- benevelont (good)
- hostile (bad)
The weapons effect
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

frustration of one's goals lead to aggression
Displaced aggression
Realistic group Conflict Thoery

competition between groups over scarce resources
Just World Belief

notion that the world is fair and just
Social Identity Theory

we seek positive self concept by differntiating roups we belong tofrom those we don't
Ingroup Bias

Favoring ingroup more
Black Doll/White Doll Experiment
Own race bias

tendency for people to accurately recognize face of their own race
Linguistic Intergroup Bias

group serving bias
Group Serving Bias

explaining away outgroup members positive behaviorsm attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions
Outgroup Homogenity Effect

perception that outgroup members are more similer to another than ingroup members "they are alike, we are diverse"
Self-perpetuating nature of social sterotypes
Sterotype threat effect