HSB4U Exam Studying Quiz

A mental image that is created about a group and involves typical characteristics

Acting on one's beliefs towards others

Unequal belief of other people and labelling them

It can be dangerous

A goat used to escape a situation

A goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it

Taking your own problems and projecting them onto another group

Avoiding unwanted situations

That is committed towards a person of a minority

Committed to intimidate, harm or terrify not only a person but an entire group of people

Committed to scare a person

Cognitive: what people believe to be true

Affective: your likes and dislikes

Effective: long-lasting beliefs transferred by parents

Connative: how people are inclined to behave

Notative: how people are inclined to portray others and write about them

Shows how prejudices escalates especially in regards to Jews and Blacks

Prejudice people are only prejudice towards Jews and Blacks

Something about prejudice; everyone has it to some degree (please don't pick this one)

Prejudice people are prejudice towards all minorities, out-groups and people unlike them

Modelling: model or copy those around us; passed from generation to generation

Mere exposure: tend to be prejudice towards groups they have had no experience with (easiest to breakdown)

Nature: they are born believing that minorities are bad

Choice: they want to be prejudiced towards others (hardest to breakdown)

Behavioural Conditioning: if prejudicial are rewarded you're most likely to continue it and vice-versa

Memory Availability: negative experience with one person from the group and apply to everyone in that group

Predictability: afraid that they cannot predict the other's actions

Inferiority: people are prejudiced to break people down and to point out flaws; makes them feel better about themselves

Scapegoating: take own anger/problems out on other groups

Power: were in a position once where the minority was in power; didn't like that

Frustration leads to aggression and then discrimination

Frustration/discrimination arise from inside and form hostility

Prejudice/discrimination are forms of hostility that arise out of hostility

Varies roles in society; everyone has different needs, but we should not be shocked by it, or offended by it

How norms function in society to allow change

Roles in society and how they affect how laws are made

The way we interact with people can cause prejudice/discrimnation

The symbols in society affect the way people perceive each other

The way we interact with people and the symbols/terms we use can cause discrimination

The more important kids were smarter, that's why they participated more than the others

Those who were told they were better began to bully those who were in the minority (even if they were bff's)

Those who were told they were inferior (below the others) began to believe they were stupid or less important

They didn't, everyone behaved the same as before

The minority participated less and did not stand up for one another

The minority was already weak, they just kept acting like that

Perception: we perceive things in different ways because we have different life experiences

Perspective: we view situations according to our current experiences and beliefs

Image: people don't see things as they actually appear, they're responding to their own image of reality; impacted by past experiences

Paradigm Alignment: when your personal set of rules matches the rules of others when reacting to the same situation

Paradigm: set of rules/conditions in your brain that acts a filter to process info

Paradigm Shift: a shift in understandings/beliefs and its change, thee rules/conditions that you judge situations by

In-Group: group you belong to with others that are similar to you; sense of belonging (ex. friends)

Out-Group: any group seen as different compared to your group; may be seen as a threat

Group Norms Theory of Prejudice: in-groups will take their frustration out on out-groups (not all)

Old-Group: the group you used to belong to and no long fit with; you've out-grown them (ex. friends from elementary school)

Conventional: very strict to traditional rules of society (ex. -goody-two-shoes- or -Carlton Banks-)

Authoritarian Submission: obey authority figures without question

Authoritarian Aggression: extreme aggression to those who do not follow #1 and #2

Anti-Intraception: against anything that is subjective or imaginative; only want right and wrong; no grey areas

Superstitious and Stereotypical Thinking: more likely to have stereotypes and superstitions

Concern with Power and Toughness: want to be seen as tough and powerful

Destructiveness and Cynicism: very cynical of society, people are bad, pessimistic, negative outlook

Projectivity: project frustration onto minority groups

Lazy: they ignore others hard work, try to find the easy way out and annoy others

Social cognitive theory of prejudice: examines the process in which children learn about race and whether they accept or reject prejudice

Ages 4-7: see things in a self-centered way; no one else's point of view

Ages 10-12: stop seeing people in groups and start seeing individuals; less likely to stereotype or be prejudice

That race is an uncomfortable topic for most people; they're scared to offend people

That everyone discusses race and it is discussed too much

Whites are smarter and learn faster than Blacks

Subordinate cultures: minorities in the U.S. and why there were more Blacks in lower-level English than in higher-level English

Blacks have an oral culture; emphasis on oral tradition

Whites have a majority culture; emphasis on tests/essays

Do not assume that everyone learns the same way

Intense and impersonal: directed towards people in out-groups

Hatred is directed at scapegoats: a lot of people with hate search for a way to take out their anger

Random: you never know when they might occur

Based on prejudice and power: need authority over victims; use surprise and large numbers to do this

Genocide becomes a form of natural hatred

Victims of hate crimes display longer lasting psychological impacts than regular crimes

This will help sort out crime easier; especially in order of priority

They are a violation of your basic human rights

Can divide communities; majority and minority

They are more violent

Induces fear in the victim and the whole group

Neo-Nazi: revival of the Nazi party, bringing honour to Hitler, want to be reinstated as a party

Christian Identity: justifies hate through biblical justification, interpret the Bible literally, racial purification, against mixed-marriages and homosexuals

Ku Klux Klan: against all minorities, white supremacist, assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. etc.

Holocaust Denial: deny the holocaust happened, distort facts, claim to be historians, want to restore order to Nazism and Hitler

Hell's Angels: ride motorcycles, secretive, close-knit group, outsiders are unwelcome

Racist Skinheads: white supremacist group, a youth movement lead by youths, VERY violent, uses music to express their views

Fear of revenge

Because they don't happen that often

Believe that the police won't consider it a hate crime or take it seriously

People do not want to file them

Fear of secondary victimization: if an LGBTQ person has not disclosed their orientation, but wants to report a hate crime and would then have to disclose it

Crimes are not always filed correctly

Feel burdened

Difficult treatment decisions and costs

Need to take time off work in order to care for their loved ones

Stress associated with the stigma

Employment: not as productive

Exclude them from society

Education: missing school and taking time off

Thinks they're crazy and destructive

Relationships: difficult especially if their personality changes

Mental health is not a major issue in Canadian prisons

Number of male/female inmates with mental illness is on the rise

1 in 10 men and 1 in 3 women in prison have been diagnosed with a mental illness

50% of offenders are accessing mental health facilities, even if they don't have an illness

Prisons have adequate medical staff and facilities

Inmates with a mental illness are more likely to end up in isolation which increases psychosis and suicide

Greeks: believed in centering the 4 humors, illness has natural causes not supernatural

Not being able to cope with your situation

Witch Doctors: illness caused by supernatural powers, an evil spirit in your body, lost your soul, violated a norm, victim of witchraft

86% of homeless individuals have a mental illness or substance abuse problem

73% were fired due to missing too many days of work this caused their homelessness

22% of homeless in Toronto list their illness as a cause to of their homelessness

50% experience severe depression

18% have schizophrenia or another psychosis disorder