Deck 11: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination: Social Biases

Question 1

What is a category based response?

Answer 1

Reacting to another person as an interchangeable member of a social group

Question 2

Do social psychologists consider stereotypes to be accurate or not?

Answer 2

Neither
- Social psychology is agnostic about the accuracy of stereotypes

Question 3

What is the conceptual definition of prejudice?

Answer 3

Reacting emotionally to an individual on the basis of one's feeling about the group as a whole

Question 4

What is the conceptual definition of discrimination?

Question 5

What are the 5 steps of rejection of the outgroup defined by Allport (1954)?

Question 6

Out of the three components of social biases, which two are the most tightly linked?

Question 7

Out of the three components of social biases, which two are the least tightly linked?

Question 8

What is the definition of entitativity?

Question 9

What is the opposite of an essentialist conception of social groups?

Question 10

What is the ultimate attribution error?

Question 11

What are the two components of ambivalent sexism?

Question 12

Give examples of subgroups of women that are often the target of hostile sexism.

Question 13

What are the two dimensions (questions) underlying the Stereotype Content Model?

Question 14

Give examples of groups that are perceived as competent but not warm.

Question 15

Give examples of groups that are perceived as warm but not competent.

Question 16

What are the different names that have been given to the process by which the perceiver's biases affect target behavior, in turn supporting the perceiver's original biases?

Question 17

What are the three themes assessed by the Right Wing Authoritarianism scale?

Question 18

What is the effect of stereotype threat?

Question 19

What are the necessary conditions for intergroup contact to be successful?