PSYCO241 Lecture 16: 2016-10-25
1 Nov 2016
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Increased opportunites for expression of prejudice and stereotypes: because of anymimity, increased communications, chat rooms, etc. Social psych- interested in understanding how people make sense of and react to each other. Stereotype: overgeneralized beliefs about a group (can be positive or negative) Implicit stereotype, one you"re not aware of: ex. Think leader think male, even though you say females make just a good leaders. Prejudice: negative feeling/attitude towards the members of a group. Social categorization: stereotypes and prejudice are a result of this. Put you in a bucket, then activate those attributes that you associate with that group, onto that person. Spontaneous categorization: natural phenomenon: occurs so easily frequently, depends on current relationship with person. Categorization (putting people in buckets) is an automatic process: subtyping: when we continue to learn more about a person, we re-categorize them into a lower level social category (more specific). Depends on your relationship with the person.
