Psych620 R1 Week2 Prejudice Stereotyping And Discrimination Worksheet
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Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination Worksheet
Define each concept in the “Concept Name” column based on the provided definition.
Definition
Concept Name
Judgments based on positive and negative perceptions of a social group
Attitude (p.226)
Reacting to a person as though he or she was an indistinguishable member of a particular social group
Category-based (p.428)
Acting on cognitive expectations and emotional reactions to a person's perceived membership in a particular social group
Stereotyping (p.428)
Bias affirms the satisfaction of belonging to the right groups; individual autonomy is balanced against group identity.
Optimal
distinctiveness theory (p.461)
Bringing about the behavior in others that a biased perceiver expects
Self-fulfilling Prophecies Create Confirming Behavior (p.451)
The degree to which one accepts a hierarchy in which some groups rightfully have a commanding influence over others
Social dominance orientation (p.466)
Similar to fundamental attribution error, as applied to groups
Ultimate Attribution Error (p.439)
Attributing negative encounters with others to membership in a stigmatized group or others' biases against the stigmatized group to which one belongs
Attributional ambiguity (p.471)
Biases assigned to a person without intention, awareness, effort, or control, often based on subliminal cues
Implicit bias
Economic, political, military, or prestige-related threats to ingroup advantage that result in negative intergroup reactions
Realistic group conflict theory (p.458)
Applying one’s cognitive expectations and associations about a group to a person
Social Cognition (pg. 431)
Prejudice that is cool, indirect, automatic, unconscious, unintentional, and often gives reason for the perceiver to deny any bias
Indirect Biases (pg. 437)
Legitimizing current social arrangements, even at the expense of the individual or the group
Intergroup Bias (pg. 433)
An explanation for a judgment that is used to
Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination Worksheet
Define each concept in the “Concept Name” column based on the provided definition.
Definition
Concept Name
Judgments based on positive and negative perceptions of a social group
Attitude (p.226)
Reacting to a person as though he or she was an indistinguishable member of a particular social group
Category-based (p.428)
Acting on cognitive expectations and emotional reactions to a person's perceived membership in a particular social group
Stereotyping (p.428)
Bias affirms the satisfaction of belonging to the right groups; individual autonomy is balanced against group identity.
Optimal
distinctiveness theory (p.461)
Bringing about the behavior in others that a biased perceiver expects
Self-fulfilling Prophecies Create Confirming Behavior (p.451)
The degree to which one accepts a hierarchy in which some groups rightfully have a commanding influence over others
Social dominance orientation (p.466)
Similar to fundamental attribution error, as applied to groups
Ultimate Attribution Error (p.439)
Attributing negative encounters with others to membership in a stigmatized group or others' biases against the stigmatized group to which one belongs
Attributional ambiguity (p.471)
Biases assigned to a person without intention, awareness, effort, or control, often based on subliminal cues
Implicit bias
Economic, political, military, or prestige-related threats to ingroup advantage that result in negative intergroup reactions
Realistic group conflict theory (p.458)
Applying one’s cognitive expectations and associations about a group to a person
Social Cognition (pg. 431)
Prejudice that is cool, indirect, automatic, unconscious, unintentional, and often gives reason for the perceiver to deny any bias
Indirect Biases (pg. 437)
Legitimizing current social arrangements, even at the expense of the individual or the group
Intergroup Bias (pg. 433)
An explanation for a judgment that is used to