Across
- 2. Negative attitudes or beliefs about one’s own ingroup.
- 8. The subjective experiences people have as they adapt their behaviors and thinking.
- 9. The social resources available to a person that can be used to obtain their goals. These include social factors such as interpersonal trust, civic engagement, and time spent with friends.
- 10. The process by which people adopt a different cultural system because of continuous contact with a new, distinct, or different culture, and that results in individual change.
- 11. The degree of freedom and opportunity a culture affords its members to choose and move among interpersonal relationships, allowing individuals to have opportunities to forge new relationships and end others, engage with strangers, and choose friends.
- 13. bias The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs, while giving less consideration to alternative possibilities.
- 16. Yielding to real or imagined social pressure.
- 17. The unfair treatment of others based on their group membership.
- 19. Yielding to social pressure in one’s public behavior, even though one’s private beliefs may not have changed.
- 21. Stereotypes about other groups.
- 22. Stereotypes about your own group.
- 23. The stereotype of Asian Americans as overachievers.
- 24. Any act or behavior that intentionally hurts another person, either physically or psychologically.
- 26. How people change their behaviors or ways of thinking in a new cultural environment.
- 28. “Brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults to the target person or group” (Sue et al., 2007, p. 271).
- 29. Prejudice that is verbalized and thus made public.
- 30. A category of individuals people of all cultures create. Ingroup members generally have a history of shared experiences and an anticipated future that produce a sense of intimacy, familiarity, and trust.
- 31. The tendency to view the world through one’s own cultural filters.
- 32. Prejudicial attitudes, values, or beliefs that are unspoken and perhaps even outside conscious awareness.
- 33. People’s ability to work together toward common goals.
Down
- 1. A marriage in which someone other than the couple being married makes the decision about who will be wed. Oftentimes, this can be the parents of the individuals being wed.
- 3. Cultures in which norms place a strong emphasis on status and reputation.
- 4. The proposition that contact between groups is especially effective in reducing prejudice.
- 5. The belief that others lack human qualities.
- 6. The proposition that immigrants and sojourners with characteristics that match their host cultures will adjust better than those with less match.
- 7. The degree to which a person’s characteristics match those of the new cultural environment in which they will acculturate.
- 12. The fear that an ingroup member’s behavior can reinforce negative stereotypes about one’s group.
- 14. Discrimination that occurs on the level of a large group, society, organization, or institution.
- 15. The tendency to prejudice others on the basis of their group membership.
- 18. Attracting someone who is already in a romantic relationship with someone else.
- 20. A category of individuals people of all cultures create. Outgroup members generally include all individuals who are not in one’s ingroup. Outgroup members generally lack a history of shared experience and do not have an anticipated future.
- 25. Generalized images we have about groups of people, particularly about their underlying psychological characteristics or personality traits.
- 27. A form of compliance that occurs when people follow direct commands, usually from someone in a position of authority.