Karteikarten
Key Terms: Prejudice, Conflict and Conflict reduction
Karten in diesem Stapel (20)
- 1Authoritarian Personality (Adorno et al)Unconscious anger
irrationally displaced -
generalised hatred for
anyone/anything 'different' - 2Dogmatic Personality (Rokeach)Tend to see world as 'black and white'. Unable to tolerate ambiguities or uncertainties
- 3Cognitive Rigidity (Fisher's Pyramid)Study of unsymmetrical pyramid. High in prejudice = remembers pyramid as symmetrical
- 4Fiske and Taylor Cognitive miserSimplified prototypes free up cognitive space highlighting perceived inter-group differences and minimises intra-group differences
- 5Fazio et al : implicit prejudice.Participants were shown various white and black faces followed by stimulus word. Respondents reacted slower to positive words and faster for negative words when seeing a black face than seeing a white face. Association between race and positive/negative values.
- 6Hughenberg and BodenhausenImplicit prejudice and perceptions of facial threat. Participants high in implicit prejudice viewed anger longer in black faces than white.
- 7Tajfel and Turner (SIT)* Individuals categories themselves with a group identity, they spot differences with others which emphasises the 'us' and 'them' distinction
* Individuals become 'depersonalised'. They act upon their group identity rather than as an individual - 8Sherif (Realistic conflict model)* Attributions are a rational, objective
response to parties in conflict over scarce resources.
* Intergroup conflict can be resolved through 'positive goal interdependence' (mutually desired goals in which cooperation is necessary) - 9Discursive psychological Accounts are never transparent reflections of an event......people construct meanings that are relevant to them. eg. two people may describe the same event in different ways
- 10Discursive psychological 'Shared psychological thesaurus'Categories are socially constructed and used both cognitively (internally) and socially to describe groups (externally)
- 11Discursive psychological Variations of social events are circulated by...Conversations and
mass media reports - 12Discursive psychological Stereotyping and formation of social attitudes are only possible because......we share a common language and jointly 'construct' meanings of social relations
- 13Discursive psychological criticised for ignoring cognitive and emotive factors. Discursive psychologists claim that it......enriches rather than ignores
psychological domain - 14Gaertner and Dovidios"Recategorisation Model of Contact"
Members of different sub-groups
see one another as members of a
shared 'in-group'. They become a
'we' rather than 'us' and 'them' - 15Hewstone and Brown"Pluralist Model of Contact"
Group identity is central to a
persons identity, contact should be an intergroup process - participants recognise and celebrate their differences - 16Brewer and Miller"Decategorisation Model of Contact"
When group differences are
de-emphasised and focus is on
individuals - attention on person
replaces category identity - 17Limits of contact hypothesis Theory is tested in laboratories......not based on real life interactions
- 18Limits of contact hypothesis Recategorisation model can easily lead to prejudice if......long history of conflict between groups, eg. Scottish and English, but together are British
- 19Limits of contact hypothesis Theoretical individualism...Contact can lead to people regarding individuals as 'exceptions to the rule', still holding their larger stereotypical view
- 20Study: Hopkins and Hopkins. Studied British Muslim's perceptions of contact and social change* Findings must be considered in terms of historical context.
* Some felt that contact would improve social change - showing that they are not a closed-off group, others felt that contact would contaminate their values and beliefs, which in turn would weaken their ability to resist discrimination
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- DD307 (Exam part 3: Groups and Social influence) Karteikarten am Key Terms: Prejudice, Conflict and Conflict reduction, erstellt von Bekkie am 22/05/2015.
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- Bekkie · Mai 2015
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