| Question | Answer |
| What is Prejudice? | A negative prejudgement of a group and it's individual members.
Ex. All muslims are terrorist. |
| How is Prejudice different from a stereotype? | Prejudice is prejudging someone without knowing all of the facts.
Stereotypes are assumes characteristics.
Ex.All Irish people always fight. |
| What is Racial Prejudice? | A negative Prejudgement of a particular race. |
| What is Gender Prejudice? | Some shift of attitudes in the western world. |
| Social Conditions that breed Prejudice? | Conformity
Institutional Support
Social Inequalities
Religion
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Stereotype Threat |
| Social Conditions that breed prejudice: Social Identity | We categorize people
We identify with certain groups, not with others.
Leads to "in- group" bias, or the tendency to favor one's own group. |
| Social Conditions that breed prejudice:Social Inequalities | When you have an unequal status your going to have prejudice.
Ex. Media broadcast white children on the news for kidnapping but not so much black children. |
| Social Conditions that breed prejudice: Self fulfilling Prophecy | Prejudice affects the target group. |
| Social Conditions that breed prejudice: Stereotype Threat | A disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on the stereotype.
(affects performance) |
| Social Conditions that breed prejudice: Religion | Faithful church members and church leaders are less prejudiced than occasional attenders. |
| Social Conditions that breed prejudice: Conformity | Being prejudiced to go along with the crowd.
Ex. Male laughing at a joke in the lockeroom in high school just so others wont think you are gay, even if you don't find it funny. |
| Emotional Sources of Prejudice | Frustration and aggression
Competition for scarce resources/realistic group conflict theory
Personality Factors |
| Emotional Sources of Prejudice: Personality Factors | Need for status
Need for self-regard
Need for belonging
The authoritarian personality |
| Emotional Sources of Prejudice: Frustration and aggression | Scape goat someone you can blame something on. |
| Emotional Sources of Prejudice: Competition for scarce resources/realistic group conflict theory | A black man getting a job over a white man and white man saying the only reason the black man go the job was because of affirmative action. |
| Cognitive Sources of Prejudice | Categorization
Percieved similarities and differences
Distinctivness
Vivid cases
Group serving bias
The "Just World" phenomenon |
| Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: Categorization | We categorize to make sense of the world.
(stereotypes pop up because of categorizations) |
| Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: Similarities and Differences | People from the outgroup are "all the same"
Ex. Comedians make generalizations of different groups. |
| Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: Distinctiveness | People who stand out.
Ex. Noticing the loud black person standing in line at walmart. |
| Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: Vivid Cases | Muslims after 9/11
Ex. Things that come into mind when say the word "muslim" om 2010 as opposed to 1998. |
| Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: Group Serving Bias | Explaining the outgroup's positive behaviors.
(fundamental attribution error at the group level) |
| Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: The "Just World" Phenomenon | People get what they deserve.
Ex. We dont want to believe that there are random acts of violence we want to believe that the victim put themselves in that situation. |
