Social Psychology and Human Nature Chapter 13 exam
1. Prejudice: a negative feeling toward an individual based solely on his or her membership in a particular group
2. racism: prejudiced attitudes toward a particular race
3. aversive racism: simultaneously holding egalitarian values and negative feelings toward people of other
races
4. discrimination: unequal treatment of different people based on the groups or categories to which they
belong
5. stereotypes: beliefs that associate groups of people with certain traits
6. subtypes: categories that people use for individuals who do not fit a general stereotype
7. categorization: the natural tendency of humans to sort objects into groups
8. social categorization: the process of sorting people into groups on the basis of characteristics they have
in common
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1. Prejudice: a negative feeling toward an individual based solely on his or her membership in a particular group
2. racism: prejudiced attitudes toward a particular race
3. aversive racism: simultaneously holding egalitarian values and negative feelings toward people of other
races
4. discrimination: unequal treatment of different people based on the groups or categories to which they
belong
5. stereotypes: beliefs that associate groups of people with certain traits
6. subtypes: categories that people use for individuals who do not fit a general stereotype
7. categorization: the natural tendency of humans to sort objects into groups
8. social categorization: the process of sorting people into groups on the basis of characteristics they have
in common
1/2
