PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Symbolic Racism, Implicit-Association Test, Contact Hypothesis
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A hosile or negaive aitude toward a disinguishable group of people, based solely on their membership in that group. A generalizaion about a group of people in which idenical characterisics are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variaion among the members. Allow for easy and eicient organizaion of informaion about people based on their group membership. Don"t necessarily have to lead to negaive or harmful behaviours. Unjusiied negaive or harmful acion toward a member of a group, simply because of his or her membership in that group. Refers to discriminatory pracices and policies in large insituions (e. g. legal system, universiies). Examples include apartheid in south africa and the segregaion laws (separate schools for whites and blacks) in the united states during the irst half of the 20th century. Racist feelings and discriminatory behaviours exhibited by an individual. Social learning (observaional learning: others as models of prejudice. Perceiving the superiority of your own ethnic group.
