Social Psychology - David G Myers (10th Edition) Chapter 9-12

A generalized attitude toward members of a social group

—a generalized belief about members of a group —For example: “Older people are mean”

behaviors directed toward others because of their group membership

—prejudice and discrimination toward people of a given race

—prejudice and discrimination toward people of a given gender – shown in a more subtle form – overlap with gender roles- you acknowledge a different gender norm associating with men and women

—positive or negative feelings of which you areaware - conscious attitudes (e.g., “gay men aregetting too demanding in their push for equalrights”) – often times conscious —- People develop diff measure to measure if yourprejudice or bias towards a specific group- Cant ask person straight out now because nowthey would answer with a politically correctanswer

—feelings of which you are not aware - automatic,non-conscious, or secret attitudes – often notconscious - Works better when you want to ask someonesomething they may lie about

Implicit Association Test - a measure of reaction time – show you images or words, “press this button when you see positive word, press other button for negative word – fast as possible – and then with white and black faces” positive words and white faces, negative words and black faces – cognition test – how much is your cognitional response influenced by media - Takes white person shorter about of time with white/good than white bad (taller the bar lower the reaction) - White people more racist

A motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups

Believing in the superiority of ones own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups

A personality thats disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lowers in status

Theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources

The "we' aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "who am i?" that comes from our group membership

"us" - a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity

"them" - a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup