Social Psychology - Prejudice Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by crina.mc

SDO -> person­ality trait which measures the support for social hierarchy

Rubin & Hewstone, 2004 -> sod changed over the years -> 3 separate hypotheses

Bob Altmeyer 1981 -> discovered RWA -> defined RWA as someone who exhibits a high degree of submission to the author­ities

RWA -> key charac­ter­istic: submis­siv­eness -> accept what the leaders & author­ities say & respect what they do -> dismiss any contra­dictory info

Contact hypothesis -> grouping indivi­duals of different backgr­ounds together can reduce prejudice and improve relations -> Jigsaw Classroom, Elliott Aronson 1970's
Imagined hypothesis -> imagining having positive contact with different indivi­duals from different backgr­ounds -> reduced prejudice

Elliott Aronson 1970's -> cooper­ative learning technique used to reduce prejudice
Breaking down barriers between groups by having children from different backgr­ounds work together on different tasks -> children respected differ­ences more and worked together to achieve good grades

Paluck and Green, 2009 -> supported that the paradigm works and it does improve academic perfor­mance & reduce prejudice

Tajfel & Turner, 1979 -> social identity theory -> evaluate others as 'us' vs 'them', 3 mental processes

Social catego­ris­ation -> social identi­fic­ation -> social comparison

Social catego­ris­ation -> categorise object and people
Social identi­fic­ation -> adopt identity of the social group
Social compar­iso­n-> compare the group that they are a part of with others

Realistic conflict theory -> two or more groups seeking limited resources -> conflict, stereo­typing and increased hostility

Organi­sat­ional prejudice -> workplace -> bias in hiring practices -> organi­sat­ional implem­ent­ations involve having implem­ented diversity and inclusion practices & policies

Social prejudice -> bias which devalues people because of their perceived membership of a social group -> Elliott Aronson 1970's -> jigsaw classroom could be implem­ented in social enviro­nments such as classrooms

Colour­blind racism -> not seeing race or colour -> treating everyone the same-> not taking into consid­eration differ­ences

Aversive racism -> negative attitudes towards members of a racial group -> avoiding indivi­duals people of certain races, expressing anxiety or discomfort around them and engaging in behaviours which maintain racial segreg­ation

Gaertner and Dovidio in 1986 proposed the aversive racism term