Myers Chapter 9: Prejudice [Distinction Level] Questions and Answers 2023

Prejudice - -A preconceived negative judgement of a group and its members -Stereotype - -A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. Stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information (and sometimes accurate) -Discrimination - -unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members -racism - -(1) an individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given race -sexism - -(1) an individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given sex, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given sex -Norms vs stereotypes - -norms are prescriptive, stereotypes are descriptive -social dominance orientation - -a motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups -ethnocentric - -believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups -authoritarian personality - -a personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of out groups and those lower in status -Social situation breeds and maintains prejudice - -A group that