PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Circadian Rhythm, Psych, Ethnocentrism
22 Apr 2017
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Barbarian: a person living outside; a person not living in a christian country. Chinese fire drill: a state of chaotic; disorder. Ditch treat: when a person pays his or her own expense. Excuse my french: when a person is talking badly. Get your irish up: to become angry or outraged. Indian giver: a person who gives a gift and then takes it back. Jew down a price: to bargain sharply. Most stereotypes are objectionable because: the implicit ethnocentrism, the implication that perceived differences are inborn and unalterable. Lippmann (1922), a political journalist described stereotype as the pictures in our heads . Social categorization: grouping people on the basis of gender, ethnicity, age, and other attributes. Consequences of categorical thinking is: in-group favouritism, out-group homogeneity. Stereotype as automatic process: subliminal presentation (devine, 1989) Controlling automatic activation: motivation and devoting cognitive resources could lead to suppression of stereotypes, bodenhausen"s (1990) experiment. Tested people when they should have been their sharpest.
