Prejudice and Discrimination

____________________ is fundamental to understanding the roots of prejudice and discrimination.

• social identity theory

• social cognitive theory

• individualism

• stereotype threat

Social identity theory is a person’s sense of who they are based on their group memberships.

• True

• False

The individual’s self-esteem is maintained by _____________________- that is the benefits of belonging to the ingroup versus the outgroup. 

• social cognitive theory

• social learning

• social comparison

• stereotype threat

________ is an attitude. An attitude can be defined as the combination of emotion and cognition.

• Discrimination

• Social Identity

• Prejudice

• Categorization

_____________ is a cognitive process whereby people categorize others, in terms of belonging to a social group or simply just on the basis of their looks.

• Discrimination

• Stereotyping

• Social learning

• Outgroup homogeneity

Arguing that stereotypes alone cause prejudice is not sufficient. Allport ( 1954) argued that _________ is a key emotional component of prejudice.

• prejudice

• stereotypes

• hostility

• identification

_________ is when a person treats someone differently based on his or her membership in a group.

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Social identity

• Social categorization

Sherif ( 1961) carried out a famous field experiment on the role of _____________ on intergroup conflict.

• group cohesion

• group identity

• bias

• self-esteem

When two groups have conflicting aims and are in competition over limited resources their members will become hostile to each other. Which theory is this known as?

• Social identity theory

• Realistic conflict theory

• Stereotyping theory

• Prejduce theory

Which study are you encouraged to use to explain the causes of prejudice?

• Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment

• Bandura's Bobo doll experiment

• Berry's conformity experiment

• Aronson and Steele's experiment