Myers Chapter 9: Prejudice Questions and Answers[Distnction]

What is Prejudice? - -A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members -What makes an attitude? - -Affect (feelings), Behavior tendency (inclination to act), and Cognition (beliefs) -What is a Stereotype? - -A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. -What is Racism? - -An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race or institutional practices that subordinate people of a given race -What is Sexism? - -An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward a given sex, or institutional practices that subordinate people of a given sex -Who invented the IAT? - -Anthony Greenwald -What is Social Dominance Orientation? - -A motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups -What is an Authoritarian Personality? - -A personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of out-groups and those lower in status -What is Ethnocentric? - -Believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group and having corresponding disdain for other groups -What is the Scapegoat Theory? - -When we experience pain and frustration, we often evoke hostility and direct it towards a group (displaced aggression towards people) -What is Realistic Group Conflict Theory? - -The theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources