Introducing Social Psychology - Introduction

7 important questions on Introducing Social Psychology - Introduction

What is the name for a personality that is characterized by the following 3 traits in relation to an authority figure?
  1. Extreme obedience
  2. Unquestioning respect
  3. Submission

Authoritarian personality

What characterized personality is associated with their personality resulting in both prejudice toward minority groups and susceptibility to fascism?

Authoritarian personality

What is the name of the theory that says that prejudice is created when aggression is misplaced towards a scapegoat(-group), when the actual source of frustration is not within reach?

Scapegoat theory
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What is the name of the theory that says about prejudice that it is created when there is conflict and competition between groups over valued goods?

Realistic conflict theory

What is the name of the procedure/model where researchers divide people into groups, where the criteria for the division are essentially arbitrary, and which results in that a member of a group can favor their own group over others without actual reason?

Minimal group paradigm

What is the name for the phenomenon when someone's judgement and behavior become more affected by their prejudice, when they actually try but fail to suppress their prejudice?

Rebound effect

What is the name for the action of activating one stimulus (EX: bird) to cause another related stimulus (EX: wings, feathers) to be activated/processed, as part of experimenting with prejudice/stereotyping?

Priming

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