Lecture 5: Improving Intergroup Relations

Question 1

What is categorisation in relation to intergroup behaviour?

Question 2

What do categorisation approaches try and do?

Question 3

What is the decategorisation approach and limitations?

Question 4

What is the crossed categorisation approach and limitations?

Question 5

What can be said about some categories when considering the crossed categorisation approach? (Hewstone et al)

Question 6

What is recategorisation and limitations?

Question 7

What is subtyping and how may it link to the decategorisation approach?

Question 8

What is colour blindness?

Question 9

What is multiculturalism?

Question 10

What is the contact hypothesis and how does it work? (And padini et al study on catholics + protestants)

Question 11

What are limitations with the contact hypothesis?

Question 12

What was Cook’s study using the contact hypothesis?

Question 13

What did West & Hewstone find about cultural differences in the direct contact hypothesis?

Question 14

What has been shown about the direct contact hypothesis in predicting prejudice in german adults? (Ashbrack et al)

Question 15

Why would the contact hypothesis work well for those with right wing authoritarianism?

Question 16

Why would the contact hypothesis NOT work well for those with high social dominance orientation?

Question 17

What is the imagined contact hypothesis? And pos + neg?

Question 18

What was shown in the 3 studies about imagined contact hypothesis with young people + old people? (Turner et al. 2007)