Deck 11: Section 2: Stereotyping: Cognition and Bias

Question 1

What might be a negative consequence of attempting to suppress automatic stereotyping? Describe this effect, including possible reasons why this effect occurs.
a. Name: The rebound effect.
b. Definition: automatic redoubled stereotypic associations after a conscious attempt to avoid stereotyping.
c. Reasons: executive control capacities depleted through attempt to control stereotypes.

Answer 1

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Question 2

What is one way people cope with stereotype threat? What are the advantages and disadvantages to this method of coping?

Answer 2

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Question 3

Describe what is meant by "aversive racism." What are some behavioral consequences of these feelings and ways in which these feelings and behaviors may be minimized?
a. Most people have egalitarian goals/ideals, but still hold some racial biases; these biases are personally upsetting to them.
b. Expression of ingroup favoritism/prejudice only when attribution is ambiguous and/or can rationalize behavior through non-racial reasons.
c. Minimize through creation of common ingroup identity - emphasize shared group membership, increased interaction, emphasis on common goals and outcomes.

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Question 4

Describe a real-life situation in which stereotype threat might affect performance. How might stereotype threat be triggered? What would the effects be? Are there any ways in which these effects could be reduced?
a. E.g., Black or Hispanic student taking the SAT.
b. Stereotype threat invoked via diagnosticity and racial identification at beginning of survey.
c. Impaired performance because of anxiety about confirming negative stereotypes.
d. To minimize, emphasize test as non-diagnostic, have student affirm values beforehand, collect racial information at the end of the exam.

Question 5

Why might ambivalent stereotypes be "useful in unequal societies?" Briefly discuss the evidence.

Question 6

Describe the stereotype content model. Give examples a group that would likely fall into each of the ambivalent and unambivalent combinations.