PSYCH 3CD3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Illusory Correlation, Social Group, Terror Management Theory
3 Apr 2016
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Ch 1 - introduction to prejudice and discrimination. Negaive / posiive: negaive out-group o. Aitudes toward social groups are based on o: afecive informaion. Individual stereotype: individual"s beliefs about a group that developed over ime through experience. Cultural stereotype: culturally shared beliefs about a group. Paricipant "jurors" knew his ethnicity before / ater judgment: dv. Judged the hispanic man guilty more than white. Judged hispanic man guilty more if they knew his ethnicity before judging. Why is posiive stereotyping bad: has underlying prejudice o. Descripive stereotypes: info about the alleged traits of group members. Prescripive stereotypes: suggesing how a person should be if in a certain group. Individual discriminaion: acions carried out by an individual. Insituional discriminaion: systemaic discriminaion against a group of people. Students described and rated out-groups less favorably than in-groups. Study 1: white male and chinese couple visited hotels, were usually not refused service o.
