Myers Chapter 9: Prejudice Questions and Answers

prejudice - -a preconceived negative judgement of a group and its individual members -stereotype - -a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate and resistant to new information -discrimination - -unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members -racism - -an individual's prejudicial attitudes toward people of a given race or institutional practices that subordinate people of a given race -sexism - -an individual's prejudicial attitudes and discrimiantory behavior toward people of a given sex or institutional practices... -social dominance orientation - -a motivation to have one's group dominate over 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 outgroups and those lower in status -realistic group conflict - -the theory that prejudice arises from composition between groups for scarce resources - when interests clash, prejudice may be the result -social identity - -the "we" aspect of our self-concept, the part of our answer to "Who am I" that comes from out group memberships