Lesson 4.1&4.2

A generalized belief about a group, or a social category.

• Generalization
• Stereotype
• Assumption
• Prejudice

When a stereotype can lead to a negative attitude in advance of having experience with a person of group

• Prejudice
• Bias
• Stereotyping
• Discrimination

Perceptions that one is aware of

• Self-deception
• External validation
• Implicit bias

• Explicit Bias

A negative attitude, of which one is not consciously aware.

• prejudice

• sterotype

• implicit bias

• explicit bias

Unjustifiable negative behavior towards a group and its members

• Prejudice
• Stereotyping
• Bias
• Discrimination

The tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people there fore get what hey "deserve" and "deserve what they get"

• moral luck principle
• victim-blaming theory
• deterministic worldview
• just-world phenomenon

The tendency to see the members in other groups as having favorable attributes and characteristics

• Social identity theory
• Ingroup favoritism
• Cognitive dissonance
• Outgroup homogeneity effect

The tendency to favor our own group over others

• out-group preference
• in-group bias
• social conformity
• groupthink

The tendency to see one's own ethnicity or social group as begin the most correct and most compared to other groups.

• Cultural relativism
• Nationalism
• Social Darwinism
• Ethnocentrism

Clinging to ones initial conceptions after the bias on which they were formed has been discredited

• Belief perseverance
• Cognitive dissonance
• Confirmation bias
• Anchoring effect