PSY BEH 104S Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Real Change, Racial Profiling, Contact Hypothesis
8 Oct 2016
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Motivational view: emphasizes motivated, emotional source of prejudice. Social identity theory: self-esteem derived from groups (tajfel and. Cognitive view: stereotyping is inevitable=process info efficiently, useful when mentally taxed. Frustration, specific upbringing, history of groups conflict-- none of these things are necessary conditions for stereotyping, prejudice or discrimination. People brought into lab and split into groups based on meaningless distinction, e. g. over estimator vs. under estimator. Us/ them: occurs with no frustration, no specific upbringing, no history of group conflict. People sometimes see illusory correlations thru glitches in our cognitive machinery. Chapman (1967)-- subjects overestimated extent to which two long. Chapman (1967)-- subjects overestimated extent to which two long words (blossom and notebook) co-occurred-- paired distinctiveness. Can argue similar phenomenon underlies negative perception of minority groups. Participants see 39 slides like john , a member of group a, helped on old lady across the street.
