1. Factors affecting Prejudice
Individual Differences
Situational factors
Cultural Factors

2. Factors affecting prejudice
What factors can you think of?
Realistic conflict theory – what were the factors affecting prejudice?
Social Impact theory?
Other factors – Individual differences, situational and cultural

3. Factors that affect prejudice
In threes…each person is to focus on one factor.
Develop an understanding of the factor and how it relates to prejudice
Make notes in the form of a poster/ PowerPoint/table
Present each factor to your group
All group members to have notes on all three factors (A01 and A03)
Factors that affect prejudice
Individual
Situational
Cultural
A01:
Right Wing Authoritarianism
OCEAN
From the resources identify:
AO3:
Supporting research
Criticise supporting research? (correlational only no cause and effect)
Different factor that opposes Individual factors?
Reductionism ?
Nature vs Nurture?
A01:
Social norms
Contact hypothesis
From the resources identify:
A03:
Supporting research
Opposing research
Different factor that opposes Individual factors?
Application/usefulness?
Reductionism ?
Nature vs Nurture?
A01:
Can culture influence prejudice?
Individualist vs collectivist cultures
From the resources identify:
A03:
Supporting research
Different factor that opposes Individual factors?
Reductionism?
Nature vs Nurture?

4. Specification - points linking to:
Individual Differences
The psychological differences
between people and their similarities. People vary on a range of psychological attributes (personality)
RWA
OCEAN
Developmental psychology:
Adorno – authoritarian personality formed in childhood.
Harsh parenting – love-hate relationship
Hate/anger repressed and displaced onto weaker members of society.
Prejudice can be affected by culture, which comes from environmental effects.

5. Comparing the factors (use all three)
Term to use (where as, on the other hand etc)