Social Identity Theory Review

Social identity theory was proposed by...

• Atkinson and Shiffrin

• Baddeley and Hitch

• Rosenzweig and Bennet

• Tajfel and Turner

Social identity theory was created to help explain...

• Conflict between groups

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• All of these behaviours

The process of categorizing people into in-groups and out-groups is called...

• In-group bias

• Social comparison

• Social categorization

• The self-esteem hypothesis

The process of comparing our in-group with out-groups is called...

• In-group bias

• Social comparison

• Social categorization

• The self-esteem hypothesis

According to SIT, we show in-group bias because it improves...

• Stereotypes

• Memory

• Discrimination

• Self-esteem

The out-group homogeneity effect is a term that means...

• Stereotypes

• A phenomenon whereby we think of out-group members as being more similar than in-group members

• Prejudice and Discrimination

• Everyone's the same

A good concept to use to explain the formation of stereotypes is...

• Confirmation bias

• Misinformation effect

• Out-group homogeneity effect

• Self-esteem hypothesis

When evaluating SIT we should remember the acronym DEAL, which stands for...

• Discrimination, Evaluation, Apartheid, Lincoln

• Discuss, Evaluate, Apply, Limitation

• Describe, Evidence, Applications, Limitations

• Don't Eat All the Lollipops

Which of the following studies is NOT relevant to SIT...

• The Bobo Doll Study (Bandura)

• Basking in Reflected Glory (Cohen)

• Minimal group experiments (Tajfel and Turner)

• Sorority girls study (Park and Rothbart)

You MUST be ready to write an SAQ on SIT.

• True

• False