Myers Chapter 9: Prejudice [Level A+] Question and Answers

Prejudice - -A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members -Stereotype - -A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. -Racism - -An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race or institutional practices that subordinate people of a given race -Sexism - -An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward a given sex, or institutional practices that subordinate people of a given sex -Social Dominance Orientation - -A motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups -Authoritarian Personality - -A personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of out-groups and those lower in status -Ethnocentric - -Believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group and having corresponding disdain for other groups -Scapegoat Theory - -When we experience pain and frustration, we often evoke hostility and direct it towards a group (displaced aggression towards people) -Realistic Group Conflict Theory - -The theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources