PSYC12H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6
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Want to understand the processes that lead to formation, maintenance and reduction of prejudice, we need to understand more about that perceiver not absolutely true. Little research on experiences of stigmatized person and how stigmatized and nonstigmatized individuals regard each other in social interacitons. Stereotyping and prejudice occur in dynamic social context involving perceiver and target reacting to each other- involving feedback from target and confirms expectations of perceiver. Among adults, negative evaluations may take form of subtle negative comments, rude behavior or other subtle expressions of prejudice. Stigma: unusual characteristic that enger negative evaluations. Stigmatized person: one who is reduced in our minds from a whole and unusual person to a tainted, discounted one generally undesirable. Stigmas are characteristics mark individual as deviated, flawed, limited, spoiled or. Stigma encompasses all more familiar situations predjudice is shown i. e. race, religion, sexual orientation but it also covers any physical, behavioural and psychological marker that elicits negative evaluations.
