PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Contact Hypothesis, Stereotype Threat, Subtyping
4 Apr 2016
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What is prejudice: an unjustifiable, negative attitude toward someone based solely on his or her membership in a group. Ascribed: something that you can"t really change kind of born with it something you cannot change (like your skin color) Chosen: like religious affiliation, political range, etc. Prejudice: refers to a negative attitude or evaluation. Discrimination: unjustifiable negative behavior (that toward a group or its members. Racism/sexism: 1) an individual"s prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior towards people of a given race/sex or 2) institutional practices that subordinate people in a given race/sex. Stereotypes: overgeneralization, inaccurate beliefs about a group and/or its members. Stereotypes are very resistant to change: can be good or bad, we could have stereotypes about people, but it doesn"t mean that all of us act on it. Simply put: they don"t describe all members of the group: most sampling leads to a distorted mean.
