| A | B |
|---|
| Attitudes | predisposition to evaluate some people, groups, or issues in a particular way |
| Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon | people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later comply a larger request |
| Zimbardo's Prison Study | This study showed the effects of role playing |
| Cognitive Dissonance | When our attitudes are inconsistent with our actions, we change our attitudes |
| Prejudice | An unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members |
| Categorization | The tendency to group similar objects may lead to stereotypes |
| Stereotype | A generalized belief about a group of people |
| Implicit Stereotypes | Uses priming: subject doesn’t know stereotype is being activated, can’t work to suppress it |
| Devine's Automaticity Theory | we have to actively push stereotypes back down if we don’t wish to act in a prejudiced way |
| Ingroup | People with whom one shares a common identity |
| Outgroup | Those perceived as different or apart form “us” |
| Out-Group Homogeneity Effect | seeing members of the out-group as much more similar to one another |
| Ingroup Bias | tendency to favor one’s own group usually at the expense of the outgroup |
| Discrimination | taking action against a group of people because of stereotyped beliefs and feelings of prejudice |
| Scapegoat Theory | prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame |
| Just-World Phenomenon | belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get |
| Scarce Resources | Prejudice and intergroup hostility increase when different groups are competing for |
| Norms & Values | prejudiced against groups that are perceived as threatening important in-group |
| Contact Theory | Flawed idea that bringing two conflicting groups together will reduce prejudice |
| Social identity theory | when you’re assigned to a group, you automatically think of that group as an in-group for you |
| Robbers Cave Experiment | Found having comflicting groups work toward a common goal reduces prejudice |
