4.2 Vocabulary Quiz

1. “them”—those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup.

1. The tendency to favor our own group

1. The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.

The tendency to recall faces of one’s own race more accurately than faces of other races. Also called the cross-race effect and the own-race bias.

1. Feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.

The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.

A set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave.

The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent. For example, when we become aware that our attitudes and our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes.

1. Changing people’s attitudes, potentially influencing their actions.

Occurs when interested people’s thinking is influenced by considering evidence and arguments.