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- Authoritarianism
- A rigid personality that contains categorical thinking, submissiveness to authority and adherence to middle class values. They tend to dislike the other and have stereotypes or prejudices.
- Committed religiosity
- A religious orientation where individuals are open minded, accepting of diversity and consider other people’s ideas or beliefs.
- Consensual religiosity
- A religious orientation where individuals interpret religion more in black and white right or wrong terms and are close minded not accepting other people’s beliefs or opinions.
- Extrinsic religious orientation
- A religious orientation where individuals use religion for their own purposes, attend their place of worship infrequently and tend to be prejudice.
- Intrinsic religious orientation
- A religious orientation where individuals have internalized the values of their religion, follow their religion and go to their place of worship and are egalitarian.
- Need for cognition
- An individual-difference variable that describes the dispositional motivation of an individual to think about the world
- Need for cognitive closure
- An individual difference variable in which people who have it rend to need an answer for everything so that they will not be confused. It doesn’t matter if the answer is wrong.
- Need for structure
- An individual difference variable in which people who have a high degree of this variable tend to desire clear, certain knowledge or structure about a topic (black or white)
- Right-wing authoritarianism
- A personality style where people are submissive to authority, are conservative politically and religiously, punitive towards criminals and are aggressive towards outgroups
- Social-dominance orientation
- An attitude where people have a preference for inequality among social groups and they want their group to dominate and be superior over other groups. These individuals strongly prefer and seek to maintain the inequalities among others and try to explain them.
- Control/Suppression follows a _______ ________ ____?
- Negative feedback loop
- When suppressing stereotypes, what are the processes that occur?
- We use our operating processes to suppress and it is resource rich, so when we are tired we use our monitoring processes because it is automatic and makes us stereotype more often
- What does suppression actually do?
- Suppression actually makes you stereotype more
- What does a lexical decision task measure?
- It measures whether a construct is activated or not
- What were the results from the skinhead suppression study?
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When writing their “day in the life of†story, they used more stereotypes
And in their lexical decision task they were quicker to react to stereotypical words - Is racism really dead?
- No, it’s just no longer fashionable
- Do modern racists know they’re racist or not?
- No
- What is the difference between modern racists and aversive racists?
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Modern racists are genuinely racist but hide policies to show it
Aversive racists are genuinely egalitarian but have racist thoughts so they express racism when no one is around and don’t think they are racist - What is Devine’s dissociation model about?
- Both high and low prejudice people have equal knowledge about stereotypes but it’s whether we believe them or not that shows we’re racist
- What is the IAT used to measure?
- It measures the strength of automatic association between two concepts (target concept and the attribute dimension)