Prejudice And Discrimination

A generalized belief about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actua variation among the mebers.

an attitude or feeling, favorable or unfavorable toward a person or group of people, prior to, or not based on actual experiences.

an unjustified negative or harmful behavior toward a member or members of a group simply because of their membership in the group.

When, in an effort to act on behalf of people who have been discriminated against in the past, peple and end up discriminating against another group

An individual's or group's prejutcial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors toward people of a given race or ethnicity.

the racist acts of one person based on conscious or unconscious prejudice.

when economic, educational, political, social, and corporate institutions favor one race or ethnicity over another.

the discriminiatory acts of one race or ethnic group against another race or ethnic group, at times attempting to change or estimate the other group.

Subtle Racism, Automatic Racism

the individual's or group's projudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors toward men or women.

the percieved cognitive, affective, and behavioral traits processed by females and males, and that distinguish the two sexes from eachother.

Women are seen as kind, nuturing, and considerate (positive) aswell as dependant, weak, and overly emotional (negative). Thus, women are "warm" nice but they are not competent.

Men are seen as decisive, assertive, and accomplished (positive) and aggressive, Insensitive, and arrogant (negative). These traits are thought to show that men are a higher status group than women.

Women: Women have a superior moral sensibility. Men: Men are powerful.

a set of behavioral expectations (norms) fo males an females.

A barrier based on attitional or organizational bias that prevents qualified females from advancing to top level positions.

When man enter predominatly Female occupations, they may get an easy ride to top-level positions or atleast get promoted much faster in these occupations.

Hiring based on group membership.

When individuals perform trivial positive actions for members o out-groups that are later used as an excused for refusing mor meaningful beneficial actions for members of thsee groups.

Indicates their "non-prejudiced" identity, whch in turn frees them to later discriminate.

discrimination against people of a certainage group, typically older peole.

discrimination against people of a certain socio-economic status

A. Religion, B. Culture, C. Attractiveness, D. Obesity, E.Homophobia

but rather is comprised of distint negative emotion.

Teat people a a lower way than the highe ones because of the tier economic staus.

We form ideas and feelings about other people which lead to behaviors directed towards other people from observing and cnforming to the attitudes and behaviors of others we like or believe (family, friends, the media, ect.)

A personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerant of out-groups and those lower in status.

Believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic ad cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups.

Motivation to have one's group dominant other social groups. Being in a dominant high-status position leads to promote this orientation and justifiation.

the idea that you use a particular person or group of people (usually peole not in a position to effectively retaliate) to act out aggression upon in order to vent fustration.

Prejudice and discrimination arise from competitin between groups for scarce resources.

the "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships

1. We Categorize 2.We Identify 3.We Compare

"Im an Italian, A Democrat, a Biologist"

We contrast our grous with other groups (out-groups: "Them- groups that people percieve as distinctly different fromor apart from thier in-group) with a favorable bias toward our group.

the tendency to favor one's own group over another group.

The tendency to favor one's own group over another group.

the tendeny to demonstrate dislike for an out-group

Out-group rejection increases.

When people are primed to think about thier mortality, they become observably hostile to people with ifferent beliefs (outgroups) and observably more fond of people with imilar beliefs (in-group)

Making internal attributions for positive in-group and negative out-group behaviors, while making external attributions for egative in-group and positive out-group behaviors.

Difference is a sign of danger

The perception of out-group members as more similar to one another than are in-group members.

The tendency fo people to more accurately recognize faces of thier own race and own age.

The tendency to mae dispositonal attributions for on individual's characteristics or behavior to an entire group of people.

A subset of a group that is not consistent with the stereotype of the group as a whole due to multiple distinctive features.

A person's expectation of being victimzed by prejudice or discrimination

The Tendency for people to believe that the world is ust and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

People's percieved risk that they might do smething that supports n unfavorable sterortype about thier group.

The idea that prejudice and discrimination will decline as we have more contact with people who we would have discriminated against.

The need to depend on each other to accomplish a goal is import to each group.