Chapter 3 – Social Categorization and Stereotypes

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(Understanding)	1.	Discuss the factors that influence social categorization.
2.	* Explain the relationship between schemas, memory, and social categories.
3.	Explain how and why the in-group out-group bias affects stereotyped thinking.
4.	* Explain these psychological processes and their relationships to stereotype thinking:
•	self-serving bias
•	actor-observer discrepancy
•	fundamental attribution error	
•	ultimate attribution error
•	correspondence bias
•	illusory correlations	

5.	Draw conclusions about the nature of stereotyped thinking. 
6.	Explain how stereotypes are shared through parents, peers, media, interpersonal communication, and social inference.
7.	Describe three functions of stereotyped thinking.
8.	Identify the factors that influence recall of stereotypic information.
9.	Discuss self-fulfilling prophecy as it relates to stereotype accuracy.
10.	Evaluate the process of stereotype change as proposed by the book-keeping, conversion, and subtyping models.

*Supplemental information for this objective will be presented during lecture.	
Chapter 4 – Stereotype Activation and Application

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(Analyzing)	11.	Differentiate between stereotype awareness and stereotype endorsement.  
12.	Explain how prototypicality, situational factors, cognitive factors, and prejudice influence stereotype categorization.
13.	Explain how automatic processes, motivated processes, and moods influence stereotype activation.
14.	Explain 5 motivations to inhibit stereotype activation.
15.	Summarize the relationship between cognitive resources and stereotype application.
16.	Explain how stereotype application results in bias.	
Chapter 5 – Emotions and Motivation

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(Analyzing)	17.	Identify the incidental emotions that increase and decrease stereotyping.
18.	Explain why the incidental emotion of happiness increases stereotyping.
19.	Explain the “stereotype content model” and its effects on emotions.
20.	Differentiate active/passive facilitation and active/passive harm.
21.	Describe the emotion of hate and the beliefs that drive it.
22.	Identify the origins of intergroup anxiety.
23.	Explain how empathy may play a role in reducing prejudice.
24.	Contrast Plant and Devine’s theory to Dunton and Fazio’s theory of motivations to control prejudice.
25.	Summarize the origins of motivation to control prejudice, according to Towles-Schwen and Fazio, and Crandall and colleagues.	

Chapter 6 – Old Fashioned and Contemporary Forms of Prejudice

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(Analyzing)	26.	Explain the significance of “bogus pipeline research” as it relates to understanding prejudice.
27.	Identify the components of Jim Crow racism.
28.	Differentiate symbolic and old-fashioned racism.
29.	Identify the key themes that drive modern-symbolic racism.
30.	Explain how emotions, values, egalitarianism, group self-interest, and personal knowledge affect development of modern-symbolic racism.
31.	Describe the behavioral manifestations of modern-symbolic racism.
32.	Contrast modern-symbolic racism and aversive racism.
33.	Describe the behavioral manifestations of aversive prejudice.
34.	Summarize the racial attitudes and values that result in ambivalent prejudice.
35.	Discuss cognitive dissonance and response amplification as they relate to ambivalent prejudice.
36.	Contrast hostile and benevolent racism.	

Chapter 10 – From Prejudice to Discrimination 

**You do not study the “Discrimination in Organizations” Section (pages 385-401) for the Midterm Exam.**

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(Understanding)	37.	Identify examples of blatant, subtle, and covert discrimination.

38.	Identify examples of interpersonal, organizational, and institutional discrimination.

39.	Describe subtle prejudice in everyday speech.

40.	Explain how personal stereotypes, the attitude-behavior correspondence, and perceived social support affect interpersonal discrimination.

41.	 Discuss the reactions that people experience when they believe they should not be prejudiced but have acted in a prejudiced manner. 

42.	Deleted.   Explain the stereotype fit hypothesis.

43.	Discuss different motivations for hate crimes.

44.	Describe the psychological reactions of hate crime victims.

45.	Explain regressive prejudice and the factors that produce it.