Term
| when is there considered to be an instance of intergroup behaviour. |
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Definition
| whenever individuals belonging to one group interact (collectively or individually) with another group or its members (in terms of their group identification) |
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Term
| name and describe the two levels of intergroup relations |
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Definition
DYADIC LEVEL
- indiviudal
- two individuals of different groups interact
0 they are just ordinary members
INTERGROUP LEVEL
- appointed leaders from different groups meet |
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Term
| describe the social cognition element of categorization |
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Definition
it is a fundamental cognitive process in humans.
it is the lumping together of objects and events into meaningful groupings |
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Term
Why do we categorize?
3 reasons |
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Definition
to reduce complexity of the world
human cognitive capacity is limited
categorization is an efficent way to dal with wide stimuli |
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Term
| natural categories vs. social categories |
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Definition
NATURAL
- inhert charactistics of objects or animal
- ie mamals able to give live birth
SOCIAL CATEGORIES
- nothing inherent; can shift
- ie race (irish weren't considered white) |
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Term
| What are the three major social categorizations? |
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Definition
Gender (most salient)
Ethnics
Age |
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Term
| Describe category accentuation |
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Definition
| after categories are formed, there is a tendency to exaggerate the difference between two categories |
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Term
| experiment where participants, after being told a gender of info sheet, were more liekly to give stereotypical traits, is an example of what? |
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Definition
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Term
| what is minimal group paradigm? **know |
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Definition
| when we make categorization, even if we have very little info about our in-group, we still favour them. |
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Term
| the experiment where the boys chose to give more money to people who liked the same painting, was an example of what? |
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Definition
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Term
| what is out group homogeneity? |
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Definition
| when one thinks all people from differnt group look same, but their own group members differ. |
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Term
| what are the three factors that influnce out group homogeneity? |
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Definition
- less interaction with those groups
- different amount of information we have about ingroup and outgroup memembers (familitarity hypohtesis)
- different kinds of categories for members of ingroup and out group (when you're a member of a category you're more motivated to know it better) |
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Term
What is relative deprivation?
what two methods do we use for comparison purposes? |
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Definition
the PERCIVED injustice that one has less than is desrved in comparison to others
use:
EGOISTIC RELATIVE DEPREVATION
for individual
FRATERNALISTIC RELATIVE DEPREVATION
- compare your group with another |
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Term
what is a crucial precondtion for intergroup aggression?
social unrest happens by whom? |
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Definition
relative deprivation.
social unrest happens by those who aren't poor but preceive they are loosing |
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