PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Patricia Devine, Dual Process Theory, Heterosexism
9 May 2017
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Social psychology-lecture 8 prejudice & aggression: prejudice. Effects of prejudice theories of prejudice: aggression theories of aggression. What is it: prejudice: an unjustifiable negative attitude toward a group or its individual members, stereotypes: a belief about the person attributes of a group of people. Types of prejudice: old view: prejudice is an attitude that has an affective, behavioural, and cognitive component. Affective: prejudi(cid:272)e or the e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al e(cid:448)aluatio(cid:374) e. g. , i do(cid:374)"t like professors. Behavioural: discrimination or unjustifiable, negative behaviour toward an individual or group, e. g. , only hiring men. I. e. , by watching others, behaving as they do, and by being reinforced for our behaviour. Automatic: is our immediate, unconscious, negative reaction to a group or individual members of a group: automatic process if: Controlled: is our conscious ability to prevent those immediate negative reactions from informing our expressed attitudes: controlled process if.
