PSY 341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Symbolic Racism, Psy, Norm (Social)
17 Sep 2019
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Bogus pipeline - participants answer questions while their physiological responses are measured by what they believe to be an effective lie detector. Jim crow racism - prior to the 1960s, prejudice by the white majority against members of other groups was the social norm. Implicit prejudice - intergroup stereotypes and attitudes that are activated in memory when the person encounters a member of an outgroup without the person being aware that the activation has occurred. Implicit prejudices are activated automatically, so they are difficult to control. Explicit prejudice - intergroup stereotypes and attitudes that people intentionally retrieve from memory. Symbolic prejudice - a set of beliefs about black people as an abstract group (anonymous they ) rather than as specific individuals. Old-fashioned prejudice - based on belief in the biological inferiority of black people and the attendant stereotypes of low intelligence, laziness, etc.
