Psychology 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gender Role, Heterosexism, Homophobia
6 Apr 2016
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Prejudice a negative learned attitude toward a group of people. Discrimination negative behaviours directed at a specific group of people. Stereotype a general belief about a group of people: differs from prejudice in that it can have positive or negative connotations, runs the risk of becoming prejudicial and leading to discrimination. Attitudes have clearly changed in recent decades. Many forms of prejudice still exist, however, in more subtle forms. Crash course video shown discrimination, prejudice, stereotype, etc. Racism discrimination directed at a specific racial group. Racial prejudice holding a hostile attitude toward a person due to their race: tough progress has been made, racism remains a significant problem, many people still use racist humour and laugh it off as a joke. Sexism discrimination directed at a specific gender. Heterosexism discrimination directed at non-heterosexual individuals: homophobia, don"t ask, don"t tell is/was an institutionalized form of heterosexism.
