Critically Evaluating Terror Management Theory (TMT) in Psychology

To avoid anxiety and fear of death

Increasing self-esteem reduces anxiety and defensiveness

Our intellectual abilities

<p>Parents' love and protection help internalize standards</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mortality salience</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increased need for faith in one's worldview</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Self-esteem is related to self-serving biases and social comparisons</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To serve as a buffer against death anxiety</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Motives for uncertainty reduction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A characteristic that marks a person for social devaluation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Anger, anxiety, and low self-esteem</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attributing negative outcomes to prejudice</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A phenomenon where group identification provides support and protection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A theory that explains intergroup conflict</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If the interests of two groups coincide, then relations between groups will be relatively harmonious</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Methodological issues with the camp setting</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Murders in U.S. cities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It has methodological issues</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It assumes that contact between groups always leads to reduced prejudice</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cooperation between groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stronger prejudices between groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It assumes that contact does not generalize to other outgroup members</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>r = -.3</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Typicality of outgroup members</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Common Ingroup Identity Model</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They oversimplify the causes of intergroup conflict</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Secondary Transfer Effect</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It can undermine attempts to achieve equality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An attempt to exterminate a group by creating conditions that lead to the group's destruction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mass killing is killing group members without the intention to eliminate the whole group, whereas genocide is the intention to eliminate the whole group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Difficult life conditions, cultural-societal characteristics, and a continuum of destruction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A threat to self-concept and feelings of disorganization and anxiety</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>We devalue the outgroup to enhance our self-esteem</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural devaluation of a subgroup, strong respect for authority, and an ideology</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The gradual increase in harm and killing, while the motivation against killing decreases</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bystanders can change and become active participants in the genocide</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They treated everyone badly in the concentration camps to break their will</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bystanders helped prop the system up and allowed genocide to happen</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They gathered in front of the deportation center to protest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To explain intergroup behavior and discrimination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They minimize differences within categories and emphasize differences between categories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A negative social identity and low self-esteem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To leave one group and join another when group boundaries are permeable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They were passive and accepted the violence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It does not account for the complexities of intergroup discrimination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It occurs with respect to the self, leading to the formation of a social identity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It leads to direct competition with the outgroup when status differences are seen as illegitimate or insecure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To change the status of the group when group boundaries are impermeable.</p> Signup and view all the answers