Stereotyping and Prejudice PSYC 20600
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Prejudice
Negative attitudes or negative feelings towards members of a social group.
Discrimination
Unfairly treating individuals because of their membership in particular groups.
Stereotyping
Assuming that individual members of a group possess characteristics associated with that group.
Explicit measures
Measuring attitudes or behaviors that are openly stated.
Implicit measures
Measuring attitudes or behaviors that are not directly stated but inferred.
Aversive Prejudice
When people who wish to appear non-prejudiced still hold negative attitudes towards certain groups.
Implicit Associations Test
A psychological tool used to measure the strength of automatic associations between concepts.
Feeling Thermometers
A method for measuring attitudes towards a group on a scale, typically ranging from 0 to 100 degrees.
Symbolic Racism
A form of racism that expresses itself through indirect means rather than overt discrimination.
Two-Step Model of Prejudice
A model describing how automatic and controlled processes interact in the expression of prejudice.
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