PSYC 61580 Study Guide - Jane Elliot
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Chapter 9: be able to explain the jane elliot experiment. Worked reduced prejudice: know the difference between prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination. Stereotypes (cognitive): beliefs about a certain group. Prejudice (affective): a preconceived, usually negative, judgment about a group: more likely to generalize, usually negative in nature, attitude, emotion, complex, source is usually prejudicial attitudes towards others. Through conditioning and modeling: conditioning (operational and classical): may be punished/rewarded as a, modeling: watching/listening to peers, parents, tv child that reinforces/reduces prejudice. Social categorization: classifying people based on common attributes. Example: seeing another school another way, but seeing own school as separate individuals (majors, etc. ) Why: we have less exposure to and less familiarity with people in the out-group. The more familiar we are with own group, the more different the other group will look: in-group (people like us) favoritism: discriminate about people in own. Most likely to occur when we identify very strongly with our own group group.
