Critical Thinking in Psychology - Lecture on Attitudes, Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Flashcards about Attitudes, Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Attitude

A positive, negative, or mixed evaluation of a person, place, thing, or event.

ABC's of Attitudes

The three components of an attitude: Affect, Behavior, and Cognition.

Cognitive Dissonance

Mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time.

Prejudice

Unjustified feelings toward a group based solely on their group membership

Discrimination

Negative or harmful unjustified behavior based solely on someone’s group membership

Stereotypes

Thoughts/beliefs that associate groups of people with traits

Prejudice

Evaluating a person or group based solely on their group membership, and NOT based on reason or actual personal experience with that group.

Discrimination

Unjustified behavior based solely on someone’s group membership. An action taken based on prejudice.

Stereotype

The brain's natural attempt to categorize the entire world around it, based on what it has been exposed to via direct or indirect observation

Foot-in-the-door

Compliance tactic that involves getting a person to agree to a large request by first setting them up by having that person agree to a modest request

Role-playing

When people are assigned a "social script" in which they are told how to behave in a particular social situation, they begin to adopt the attitude of the person they are mimicking.

Cancel Culture

A modern form of ostracism in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles