Prejudice

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prejudice
A unjustifiable positive or negative belief towards some social aggregate or outgroup
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Stereotype
Schema that fits with a social group
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Discrimination
Behavior, usually negative directed toward a person based on their assumed membership in a category
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Schema
Network of ideas/attributes
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Minority group
A group with less power and status
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Ethnocentrism
A belief that your ethnic group and culture is better than every other ethnic group
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Psychodynamic Theory period
Period 3: Prejudice is from empathy. Women have no empathy
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Old fashion racist
racist and proud
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Modern racist
Hiding racism in political beliefs
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White ambivalence
A justification for stereotypes
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Ambivalence amplification
Being faced with someone marginalized and treating them with extremes
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Outgroup homogeneity
the perception that all members of a particular outgroup are identical to each other
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Automaticity
Unconscious thought
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Salience
How noticeable an aspect that categorizes you is
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Cognitive accentuation
Maximizing the differences between groups while minimizing the differences within groups
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Active bigot
Racist and proud
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All weather liberal
no prejudice or discrimination
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Timid bigot
prejudiced but does not discriminate
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Reluctant bigot
People who discriminate to fit in
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Hypothesis
Statement of relationship between two or more variables
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Theory
Broader generalization than a hypothesis to explain
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Paradigm
Broader generalization than a hypothesis and theory to explain
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Behaviorism
the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
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Humanistic
Humans are born good and with free will
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Cognitive
Using scientific techniques to test humans
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Physiological
Testing with shocks and neurons
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Evolutionary
how the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes
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Scientific racism period
Period one: No racism. IQ tests prove whites are the best
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Race prejudice period
Period two: Black people are helpless and should be patronized. Social distance scale
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Imperical
Based on observations
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Social distance scale
Studied prejudice by how much you avoided an outgroup
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Prejudice personality period
Period 4: Racism is a mental disorder. Included anti-democratic personality
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Anti-democratic personality
Personality that could lead to a dictator
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Anti-democratic personality shared traits
Antisemitic, racist, sexist, and conservatives
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Socio-Cultural period
Period 5: The environment makes us prejudice
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Allport's contact hypothesis
Mixing races removes racism (not true)
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Cognitive thought period
Period 6: Everyone has a varying level of prejudice
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Cognitive misers
We want the most of an interaction while putting in the least work
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Physiological psychology period
Period 7: Prejudice can be detected with blood pressure and heart rate
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Consentual stereotype
Stereotype shared with society
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Self report measuring technique
Questionnaire. Common to lie
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Unobtrusive behavior measuring technique
Behaviors that the participant isn't aware of. They have to be unaware
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Psychological measuring technique
Responses without conscious control. Expensive and needs extensive training.
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Implicit Cognition measuring technique
Responses that occur without conscious control. False negatives and positives
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Reactivity
Altering behavior due to being observed
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