PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 11: Mock Interview, National Association Of Scholars, Ambivalent Sexism
5 Dec 2017
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3 general perspectives - complementary to & influences each other: economic perspective - competing interests, motivational perspective - psychological needs, cognitive perspective - cognitive processes that enable people to categorize. Prejudice - an attitudinal and affective response toward a group and its individual members: can be positive and negative, negative prejudice leads to discrimination. Involves prejudging other because they belong to a specific category. Discrimination - negative or harmful behaviour directed toward members of a particular group: unfair treatment of others strictly based on their membership in a specific group. Intergroup favouritism can arise in the absence of outgroup enmity. Modern racism - prejudice directed at racial groups that exists alongside the rejection of explicitly racist beliefs (ex: black people are morally inferior to white people) Some peoples reactions to other group are unconscious and automatic: responses may differ greatly from their more thoughtful beliefs and attitudes.
