SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ableism, Ageism, Sexual Orientation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2YY3
• Professor: Felicia Chang

Document Summary

Discrimination is usually the behavioral manifestation of prejudice and therefore involves negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of the members of rejected groups . Victims of prejudice: we can all be victims of prejudice due to our membership in an identifiable group, religious orientation, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, race, disability, gender, weight, age. Infants, especially those raised with limited exposure to other races, will show a preference for faces of their own race by 3 months. People accept initial, default category based information when they have no motivation to examine further. When accuracy especially matters people are motivated to try harder: people who are motivated to obtain accuracy focus on apparent inconsistencies, in an effort to resolve them (e. g. , changing the meaning or revise their impression). Stereotype content: stereotypes vary in their level of favourability, katz-braley checklist method = give people a list of nationalities and ethnicities and a list of traits.