Test 4-5: Prejudice and Discrimination
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 prejudice | drawing conclusions about a person, group of people, or situation prior to evaluating the evidence |
| adaptive conservatism | evolutionary principle that creates a predisposition toward distrusting anything or anyone unfamiliar or different |
| in-group bias | tendency to favor individuals within our group over those from outside our group |
| out-group homogeneity | tendency to view all individuals outside our group as highly similar |
| discrimination | negative behavior toward members of out-groups |
| stereotype | a belief, positive or negative, about the characteristics of members of a group that is applied generally to most members of the group |
| implicit and explicit stereotypes | beliefs about the characteristics of an out-group about which we're either unaware (implicit) or aware (explicit) |
| ultimate attribution error | assumption that behaviors among individual members of a group are due to their internal dispositions |
| scapegoat hypothesis | claim that prejudice arises from a need to blame other groups for our misfortunes |
| just-world hypothesis | claim that our attributions and behaviors are shaped by a deep-seated assumption that the world is fair and all things happen for a reason (justin) |
| jigsaw classrooms | educational approach designed to minimize prejudice by requiring all children to make independent contributions to a shared project |
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