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Chapter 11
Exam 4
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
05/09/2011

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Prejudice
Definition
a generalized attitude toward members of a social group
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Stereotype
Definition
generalized belief about members of social groups
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Discrimination
Definition
behaviors directed toward people on the basis of their group membership
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Stereotype Threat
Definition
the fear that one might confirm the negative stereotypes held by others about one's group
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Disidentify
Definition
to reduce in one's mind the relevance of a particular domain (e.g., academic achievement) to one's self-esteem
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Minimal Intergroup Paradigm
Definition
an experimental procedure in which short-term, arbitrary, artificial groups are created to explore the foundations of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination
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Ingroup Bias
Definition
the tendency to benefit members of one's own groups over members of other groups
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Realistic Group Conflict Theory
Definition
the proposal that intergroup conflict, and negative prejudices and stereotypes, emerge out of actual competition between groups for desired resources
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Social Dominance Orientation
Definition
the extent to which a person desires that his or her own group dominate other groups and be socially and materially superior to them
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Scapegoating
Definition
the process of blaming members of other groups for one's frustrations and failures
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Social Identity
Definition
the beliefs and feelings we have toward the groups to which we see ourselves belonging
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Authoritarianism
Definition
the tendency to submit to those having greater authority and to denigrate those having less authority
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Stereotyping
Definition
the process of categorizing an individual as a member of a particular group and then inferring that he or she possesses the characteristics generally held by members of that group
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Perceived Outgroup Homogeneity
Definition
the phenomenon of overestimating the extent to which members within other groups are similar to each other
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