01:830:220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Identity Theory, Fundamental Attribution Error, Prefrontal Cortex
Document Summary
Stereotype is a generalized notion of a group of people. Done with the automatic part of the brain, but control part of the brain can control it. Negative attitudes (affective) toward the members of a specific social group. May feel a certain emotion toward a group. Beliefs (cognitive) about social groups in terms of the traits or characteristics that they are believed to share. Hormonal tendencies that shape how our brain is formed. Negative behaviors (behavioral) directed toward members of different social groups. A theory concerned with the consequences of perceiving the self as a member of a social group and identifying with it. People easily divide the social world into us (the in-group) versus them (the out-group) If status is high, people want to maintain status to keep self- esteem high. People considered part of the us" category are thought of more favorably than those in the them" category.
