Test 3 Social Psychology

-a theory suggesting that people seek to enhance their self-esteem by identifying with specific social groups and perceiving these groups as being better than other groups.

Unwelcome physical or verbal sexual overtures that create an intimidating, hostile, or offensive social environment.

The tendency to give more favorable evaluations and greater rewards to ingroup members than to outgroup members.

Authoritarian personality origniates in early childhood where childrearing practices teach children to repress their hostility towards authority and redirect it onto a less powerful target that could not retaliate.Authritarian personality is a personality trait charaterized by submissiveness to authority, ridgid adherence to conventional values, and prejudice towards outgroups.

Gender stereotypes: what is thought overall/largely about particular gender -Gender roles: typical duties particular genders take on as proven by time -Stereotypes usually do not change but gender roles do over time.

Rationalize participation, quit group, shine light on good qualities of group

-Stereotype: Beliefs about people that put them into categories and don’t allow for individual variations -Prejudice: Attitudes towards members of specific groups that directly or indirectly suggest they deserve an inferior social status. -Discrimination: A negative action toward members of a specific social group.

-SD indicates level of intimacy of social interaction that individuals find acceptable between themselves and members of particular social categories.

-aversion - we stay away from groups we view in negative light so as not to bring up negative feelings about group & ambivalence toward group seen in negative light.

-Aversive Racism: Attitudes toward members of a racial group that incorporate both egalitarian social values and negative emotions causing one to avoid interaction with members of the group. -Reverse Discrimination: discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, or in favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged group. Affirmative Action

-Perception of outgroup member as being more similar to one another than are members of one’s ingroup.

-The belief that two variables are associated with each other when in fact there is little or no actual association.

Subcategorization: is singling out a person from the stereotype and labeling them "special". It says only a few are special and the rest are like the stereotype so reinforces stereotype.

-the theory that intergroupconflict develops from competition for limited resources.

-Two groups of boys at first seperated & don’t know about each other. Spend a week developing group, territory & intergroup leaders and outcasts. Second week, groups are made known about each other & set in a competitive situation like winning prizes for challenges. Boys of each group are vicious towards each other & their intergroup members become more solid w/ less inner seperations. Third week, groups are forced to work together and eventually turn hostility into friendship and commorodery.