• Explain how schemas and negative emotions provide the basic foundations for prejudice.
  
  
• State the two basic reasons why prejudice persists.
  
  
• Contrast the key difference between prejudice and discrimination.
  
  
• Understand how modern racism operates in contrast to "old-fashioned" racism.
  
  
• Describe how racial attitudes have been measured as a function of the "bogus pipeline" and the "bona fide pipeline."
  
  
• Consider why tokenism exists and its implications.
  
  
• Explain how realistic conflict theory helps to understand the origins of prejudice.
  
  
• Discuss the general methods and findings of the famous "Robber's Cave" study and why it is relevant to the study of prejudice.
  
  
• Contrast historical and contemporary social psychological views of whether poor economic conditions foster prejudice.
  
  
• Discuss how the social learning view of prejudice affects how a person develops attitudes about other racial or ethnic groups.
  
  
• Understand the nature and effects of social categorization and , in doing so, highlight the relevance of the ultimate attribution error and social identity theory.
  
  
• Offer a basic overview of what stereotypes are and how they operate.
  
  
• Compare and contrast how illusory correlations, in-group differentiation, and the illusion of out-group homogeneity all relate to the development of prejudice.
  
  
• Explain how the contact hypothesis and the extended contact hypothesis differ in terms of their predictions for how we can reduce prejudice.
  
  
• Consider how recategorizations, cognitive interventions, and social influence can all be used to reduce prejudice.
  
  
• Understand how individuals cope with prejudice.
  
  
• Explain how hostile and benevolent sexism function.
  
  
• Discuss how gender stereotypes and differential respect often provide the foundation for the cognitive bases of sexism.
  
  
• Understand why subtle forms of discrimination—particularly in the workplace—may still exist, and in doing so, explain what is meant by a "glass ceiling."

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