PSY121 - Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotyping

What is an automatic bias?

unintended, immediate, and irresistible biases

What is aversive racism?

an unexamined racial bias that the person does not intend and would reject, but that avoids inter-racial contact.

What are blatant biases?

Blatant biases are conscious beliefs, feelings, and behavior that people are perfectly willing to admit, are mostly hostile, and openly favor their own group

What is discrimination?

Discrimination is behavior that advantages or disadvantages people merely based on their group membership

What is a model minority?

A minority group whose members are perceived as achieving a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average

What is the self-categorization theory?

develops social identity theory’s point that people categorize themselves, along with each other into groups, favoring their own group

What is the social identity theory?

Social identity theory notes that people categorize each other into groups, favoring their own group

What is a stereotype content model?

Stereotype Content Model shows that social groups are viewed according to their perceived warmth and competence

What are subtle biases?

Subtle biases are automatic, ambiguous, and ambivalent, but real in their consequences