Be able to describe the following concepts.
Authoritarian personality
Right wing authoritarians.
Personal need for structure.
Need for closure
Religiosity
Intrinsic orientation
Extrinsic orientation
Quest orientation
Social dominance orientation
Legitimizing myths
1. How did Adorno’s use the relationship between his anti-Semitism scale, ethnocentrism scale, and F-scale (facism scale) as evidence for the existence of the authoritarian personality.
2. What are three criticisms of Adorno’s theory of Authoritarianism and his F-scale.
3. What are the three components of Right-wing Authoritarianism? What values are associated with high authoritarians and what values are associated with low right wing authoritarians?
4. What is the relationship between intolerance of ambiguity and authoritarianism? How does need for structure and need for closure support this proposed relationship?
5. What is the relationship between three types of religiosity and prejudice? Explain the phrase “it is not religion per say that ‘makes and unmakes prejudice.’ Rather, it is the way in which religious beliefs are held that is associated with prejudice.”
6. What is the relationship between political conservatism, racism and ethnic prejudices, nationalism, cultural elitism, and social dominance orientation (SDO)? How might SDO explain gender gap in support for different political positions?
7. How does nonprejudice differ from prejudice, according to Phillips and Ziller?
9. What are the three primarily criticism of the individual difference approach to understanding prejudice?