PrejudIce & Relationships

What is Prejudice?

• A generalized belief about a group of people

• an unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members

• taking action against a group of people because of stereotyped beliefs and feelings of prejudice

• The theory that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

^{____________ is a generalized belief about a group of people}

"taking action against a group of people because of stereotyped beliefs and feelings of prejudice"

• Scapegoating

• Stereotype

• Discrimination

• none

INGROUP =

• US - people with whom one shares a common identity

• THEM - those perceived as different or apart from "us"

• EVERYONE - those perceived as different or apart from

• none

Which theory states that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame?

• Discrimination

• Freud

• Ingroup vs outgroup

• Scapegoating

The tendency to believe that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get

• Scapegoating

• Ingroup vs outgroup

• Just-World

• Discrimination

The three parts of Attraction are Proximity, Physical Attraction, and

Mere Exposure Effect states

• repeated exposure to people - desire to be close to each other

• people strive for close connections with their peers

• repeated exposure to the same people causes us to dislike them

• repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them