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Prejudice and Stereotypes

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What is Prejudice?   A negative prejudgement of a group and it's individual members. Ex. All muslims are terrorist.  
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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.  
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What is Racial Prejudice?   A negative Prejudgement of a particular race.  
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What is Gender Prejudice?   Some shift of attitudes in the western world.  
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Social Conditions that breed Prejudice?   Conformity Institutional Support Social Inequalities Religion Self-fulfilling Prophecy Stereotype Threat  
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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.  
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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.  
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Social Conditions that breed prejudice: Self fulfilling Prophecy   Prejudice affects the target group.  
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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)  
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Social Conditions that breed prejudice: Religion   Faithful church members and church leaders are less prejudiced than occasional attenders.  
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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.  
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Emotional Sources of Prejudice   Frustration and aggression Competition for scarce resources/realistic group conflict theory Personality Factors  
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Emotional Sources of Prejudice: Personality Factors   Need for status Need for self-regard Need for belonging The authoritarian personality  
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Emotional Sources of Prejudice: Frustration and aggression   Scape goat someone you can blame something on.  
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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.  
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Cognitive Sources of Prejudice   Categorization Percieved similarities and differences Distinctivness Vivid cases Group serving bias The "Just World" phenomenon  
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Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: Categorization   We categorize to make sense of the world. (stereotypes pop up because of categorizations)  
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Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: Similarities and Differences   People from the outgroup are "all the same" Ex. Comedians make generalizations of different groups.  
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Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: Distinctiveness   People who stand out. Ex. Noticing the loud black person standing in line at walmart.  
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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.  
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Cognitive Sources of Prejudice: Group Serving Bias   Explaining the outgroup's positive behaviors. (fundamental attribution error at the group level)  
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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.  
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