- Explain how schemas and negative emotions provide the basic foundations for prejudice.
- State the two basic reasons for 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."
