PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visible Minority, Classical Conditioning, Word Processor

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: M L Laliberte

Document Summary

Psy2110 ~ social psychology (session #8: stereotypes, prejudice and. Positive: people who are attractive = assume they"re a good person: ex. Positive: people from asia are smarter and better at math: schemas about entire groups of people, assuming they possess all the same characteristics of that group, there are some people more victimized than others = minority. Includes an irrational hostility toward a particular group. In one word, prejudgement: discrimination (behavioural), differential treatment of individuals who belong to different groups, this is the behavioural outcome = treating people differently based on membership in some group (ex. Visible feature, etc: could also be positive or negative = studies mostly focusing on the negative though (ex. Women are more emotional than men = it"s a stereotype because it"s information acquired. Therefore, prejudice happens because of them trying to seek a leader position, where many will argue that they won"t be good leaders since they"re so emotional.