PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 3 Women, Dispositional Attribution, Stereotype
9 Jan 2015
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Stereotypes which are cognitive aspect (unfair generalization applied to group and its members) Prejudice is an affect based state (emotional state associated with the group love/hate prejudice) Discrimination is biased behaviour associated with some group. Categorization is so innate natural (6 month babies do it) Categories by nature include information and that information of humans includes stereotypes. We all do it, it takes mental effort to stop using stereotypes. We tend to put more information for categories we don"t belong to, for navigating through said category! White person is more like a cop, and black person is more like a criminal (generalization) Recorded discussion between 3 women and 3 men, pre-rated in attractiveness, ideas are pretested. Subjects shown images of the faces while listening to recording and. Variation 1: told to categorise ideas by gender, who said what. Result: no matter which variation people made the same mistake!
