PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Behaviorism, Cognitive Dissonance, Henri Tajfel
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Lives: basic building blocks of society people. Closer ties to group members, suspicious and rejecting of members of other groups. Ingroups: any group with which one affiliates themselves. Outgroups: any group with which one does not affiliate themselves. Any group to which one does not belong. Preferences may have adaptive utility, they form negative feelings about other groups and for believing that certain characteristics are associated with other groups. Prejudice: a biased evaluation of a group, based on real or imagined characteristics of the group members. Stereotype: a set of beliefs about the personal attributes of a group of. Could lead to ingroup hostility and violence. All history"s wars, battles, and other acts of group violence have been driven by some form of prejudice, stereotyping, and/or discrimination. Spanish inquisition, american civil war, american slave trade, Holocaust, and genocide in rwanda and yugoslavia: happened because of intergroup prejudice and hostility.