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- Appraisal
- A set of cognitions that are attached to a specific emotion
- Attitude
- A general evaluation about some object (i.e. good or bad) (Attitudes are broken down into 3 categories, the ABCs Affect Behaviour and Cognition)
- Balance-theory
- The theory that one’s attitudes, behaviours and cognitions need to be consistent
- Basic (primitive) categories
- Categories that people are grouped into almost automatically after perception using things like race, gender and age. (“Like us†or “Not like usâ€)
- Cognitive miser
- The idea that people what to think in simple was and not complicate things
- Cultural stereotype
- Beliefs shared by a community about a group of people
- Discrimination
- Negative behaviour towards an individual based on their group membership
- Individual stereotype
- Beliefs held by an individual about a group of people
- Ingroup
- Any group that we belong to or affiliate ourselves to
- Minimal group
- Groups formed on some random (arbitrary criteria) (i.e. random assignment to group A or B)
- Motivation
- Performing (or not performing) some behaviour and to keep doing it, in order to meet one’s goals.
- Outgroup
- Any group that we don’t belong to or affiliate ourselves to
- Prejudice
- Biased evaluations of a group based on real or imagined characteristics of the group members.
- Realistic conflict theory
- A theory that states prejudice and stereotypes and hostility come from competition between groups for limited resources
- Schema
- A cognitive structure or hierarchy that represents knowledge about a concept and other things as well as their relations
- Self-categorization theory
- When people view themselves as members of a social category (ethnic, religious)
- Stereotype
- A set of beliefs about the traits or attributes of a particular group of people
- Subtyping
- A process where a person maintained their prejudice but creates a new category to accommodate for new information that is inconsistent with a negative stereotype they have about a group
- Theory of reasoned action
- The theory that attitudes shape our beliefs
- Where did Martin Luther King junior do his march?
- On Washington
- What is symbolic racism?
- Hiding racism behind come sort of policy
- What are the 4 things that make a statement prejudice?
- Content, Intention, Conviction and Context
- Affect is associated to what?
- Prejudice
- Cognition is associated to what?
- Stereotypes
- Behaviour is associated to what?
- Discrimination
- Are stereotypes good or bad?
- Stereotypes are good things they help us organize our world