- Define and distinguish between stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.
- Discuss how social learning through socialization and the media can create
prejudice.
- Describe consequences of prejudice for its victims, including the effects
of stereotype threat and attributional ambiguity.
- Explain the psychodynamic approach to prejudice.
- Describe how intergroup competition theories explain prejudice.
- Explain the cognitive bases of prejudice.
- Describe social identity theory.
- Show how prejudice has changed from "old-fashioned racism" to
newer forms of prejudice such as symbolic racism, aversive racism,
and implicit stereotypes.
- Describe various approaches to reducing prejudice, including
socialization, intergroup contact, and recategorization approaches,
and indicate the conditions under which these are most likely
to be effective.
