PSYC12H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: In-Group Favoritism, Social Cognition, Stereotype
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Basic processes in prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination: 4 factors that foster and maintain bias . The 1920"s: race prejudice: prejudice as irrational and unjustified, measuring and describing prejudice, optimistic assumption that as social scientists identified and documented the problem, it would go away. The 1950"s: the prejudiced personality: prejudice rooted in anti-democratic ideology and authoritarian personalities, holocaust inspired this shift, social policy that democracy and liberal values will erode intolerance and prejudice. Cognition in bias: classic research first published investigation of bias in 1920"s article exploring race and social distance in 1950, allport argued in his ground breaking text nature of. / individual, attribute-based: stereotypes develop via differentiated expectancy-confirming (automatic) or accuracy-oriented processing goals. Review of current research: replaced with more subtle form of bias, 75% drop in americans reported prejudice. Automatic, ambiguous and ambivalent forms of bias: biases are automatic when outside consciousness and control, result from over-learned group categories and their negative or positive associations.
