PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: In-Group Favoritism, Stereotype, Psychopathology
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Chapter 1: prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination - theoretical and empirical overview. Intergroup bias - systematic tendency to see ingroup as more favourable. These topics are studied by sociology, polisci, and neuroscience as well so we have practical implications like medicine, law, business, etc. Research has rapidly expanded in quantity and perspective - looked at 4 leading social psych journals and saw that more and more articles are about these topics. Approaches to understanding have broadened - used to focus on individual di erences and psychopathology but now looking at cognitive processes, groups, identities notes. Attitude with 3 components - cognitive (beliefs about group), a ective (dislike), conative (behaviourally predisposed to behave negatively toward group) Organizes people"s environment and orients them to objects/people in it; enhances self- esteem and provides material advantages. Psych focuses on prejudice as intrapsychic process (attitude held by individual) but socio looks at group-based functions (economy and class, e. g. race relations)
