PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Aboriginal Peoples In Canada
8 Apr 2017
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As well as organizing the social environment into categories, social groups also provide a (cid:862)syste(cid:373) of orie(cid:374)tatio(cid:374) for self-refere(cid:374)ce(cid:863: schmader and major. We use our groups performance (relative to other groups) as a means of self- appraisal. When our group does poorly on some task or scores low on some attribute, we will devalue that task or attribute, we will devalue that task or attribute as a self- protective strategy. A unjustified negative attitude toward an individual based on the individuals membership in a group: stereotype: A generalization about a group characteristics that does not consider any variation from one individual to another. Intergroup relations: mark zanna & victoria esses & geoffert haddock (1993, 1994, 1997) Have measured canadian university students attitudes, opinion and evaluations of an number of minoriry groups (french canadians, aboriginal canadians, pakistanis, Results: prejudice arises form 4 interrealted factors: a cognitive component: (1) stereotypes & (2) symbolic beliefs, an affective component: (3) emotions (4) past experience.
