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| According to this theory people's self-protective emotional and cognitive worldviews and prejudices when confronted with reminders of their mortality. |
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| Outgroup homogeneity effect |
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| Perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. Thus " they are alike; we are diverse." |
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| The tendency for people to more accuratley recognize faces f their own race. |
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| A person's expectation of being victimized by prejudice or discrimiantion. |
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| Explaining away outgroup member's positive behaviors;also attributing negative behaviors to their dispostions (while excusing such behavior by one's own group). |
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| the tendency of people to beleive that the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get. |
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| accommodating individuals who deviate from one's steroetyp by thinking of them as "exceptions to the rule." |
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| accomodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotyp by formng a new steroetype about this subset of the group. |
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| A disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, that one wil be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. Unlike self-fullfilling prophecies that hammer one's self-concept, stereotype threat situations have immediate effects. |
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| A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members. |
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| A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. Overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new infomation. |
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| Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members. |
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| Social Dominance orientation |
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| A motivation to have one's group dominance other social groups. |
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| believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups. |
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| A personalitiy that is disposed to favor obediaence to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lwer in status. |
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| realistic group conflict theory |
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| The theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources. |
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| The "we" aspect of our self-concept the part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memebership. |
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| The tendency to favor one's own group |
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| Differentiate traditional and modern racism. |
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| Differentiate benevolent and hostile sexism. |
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| Describe social sources of prejudice. |
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| Describe motivational sources of prejudice. |
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| Describe cognitive sources of prejudice. |
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| Discuss the consequences of prejudice. |
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| How do the following contribute to prejudice: social inequality, socialization, and institutional supports? |
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| How do frustration and ingroup bias contribute to prejudice? |
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| How do the following contribute to prejudice: categorization, distinctiveness, and attributions? |
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| Define and describe research related to self-fulfilling prophesy. |
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| Define and describe research related to stereotype threat. |
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