SIT Review

Acting more favourably towards your in-group than you do towards an out-group.

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• In-group bias

• Implicit Racial Bias

The part of the brain associated with implicit racial biases.

• Hypothalamus

• Hippocampus

• Thalamus

• Amygdala

The claim in SIT that people compare their in-group with out-groups in a biased way in order to make themselves feel better.

• Self-esteem hypothesis

• Anxiety buffer hypothesis

• Out-group homogeneity effect

• Social categorization

The name of the abstract painters that Tajfel and Turner led students to believe they were grouped based on their likelihood to like these painters.

• Social categorization

• Klee and Kandinksy

• Rohlfs and Nolde

• Kokoschka and Soutine

The act of making one's in-group better and different from an out-group.

• Social identity

• Social comparison

• Social categorization

• Positive distinctiveness

The cognitive process of thinking about people in relation to their in-groups and out-groups (in other words, mentally categorizing people into different groups)

• Discrimination

• Social comparison

• Social identification

• Social categorization

This term describes the psychological phenomenon whereby members of out-groups seem more similar to one another than members of an in-group.

• Social categorization

• Out-group homogeneity

• Minimal group paradigm

• Illusory correlation

Treating someone different because of a group they belong do. (usually refers to worse treatment).

• Generalization

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Acquisition

An experimental procedure that involves creating groups based on nothing and then observing their behaviour.

• Social Comparison

• Social categorization

• Out-group homogeneity effect

• Minimal Group Paradigm

A bias against members of a particular race that you're not consciously aware of.

• Discrimination

• In-group bias

• Implicit racial bias

• Minimal group paradigm