Social Psychology: Prejudice and Stereotypes (ch. 6)

Question 1

Holding beliefs about different attributes that men and women have.

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Gender stereotypes

Question 2

The hiring/acceptance of a few members of a minority group in order to maintain discrimination.

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Tokenism

Question 3

___ of/to your group's interests or perceived competition for resources can motivate prejudice.

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Threat

Question 4

Bringing segregated people into contact with each other reduces prejudice.

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Contact hypothesis

Question 5

The belief that gender and race are not real but merely socially constructed through language.

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Social Constructionism

Question 6

An attitude towards people of a different group often triggered by emotions.

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Prejudice

Question 7

The idea that women are better at nurturing children.

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Benevolent sexism

Question 8

The gender(s) of which a person is romantically or sexually attracted to.

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Sexual orientation

Question 9

Refers to social or cultural aspects of being male or female

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Gender

Question 10

When exposed to members of our own group engaging in prejudicial behavior, we may feel: ____

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Collective guilt

Question 11

The paradigm that children acquire prejudiced attitudes from their parents.

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Social learning view

Question 12

This emotion is more effective at resolving prejudicial behavior.

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Guilt

Question 13

Outcomes of negative beliefs that hurt groups of people.

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Discrimination

Question 14

A personal sense of one's own gender

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Gender identity

Question 15

They tend to see more progress towards equality than other groups do.

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White people

Question 16

The view that men and women have intrinsically different and characteristic natures.

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Essentialism

Question 17

Cannot discuss race without a fear of being called racist. "We're still talking about slavery?"

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White shame/fragility

Question 18

A system that privileges one race over another

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Racism

Question 19

Fear of people making negative assumptions about you based on a category you belong to.

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Stereotype threat

Question 20

Refers to one's biological anatomy.

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Sex

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