PSYC1030 Week 8: Racism: Examples, Theories & Lived Experience

Vocabulary terms and definitions regarding the psychological theories, levels, and impacts of racism based on the PSYC1030 lecture.

Prejudice

Attitudes that include cognitive, affective, and behavioural components.

Racism

A form of prejudice based on race that operates at multiple levels: individual, interpersonal, and structural.

Aversive Racism

A theory describing situations where people see themselves as fair and non-prejudiced but may still hold implicit biases.

Implicit Bias

Automatic, unconscious associations learned through media, culture, and socialisation.

Structural Racism

Forms of racism embedded in policies and systems that lead to unequal outcomes across racial groups, evident in education, health, and media.

Epistemic Racism

Occurs when some knowledge systems are treated as more valid than others, often privileging Western academic knowledge while excluding or devaluing Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing.

Stereotype Threat

The extra pressure to prove something that occurs when pressure from stereotypes affects an individual's performance.

Relational Lens

A perspective observing that racism is not just attitudes, but something that disrupts identity, belonging, and connection.