PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Authoritarian Personality, Jennifer Capriati, Ethnocentrism
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Chapter 11: discrimination - prejudice - stereotype -- all connected, prejudice - value dimension, your feelings toward minorities or prejudice groups, discrimination - behaviour against the prejudice or stereotype group. How do you measure prejudice: ask questions to get to the core of people"s values and beliefs, problem: not consistent and we"re less likely to express our true attitudes because it may be socially unacceptable. Controversy in prejudice literature: survey studies, rely on verbal report (what people tell us, prejudice is declining. Implicit association test: unconscious attitudes toward any other groups (tests) Social psychology lecture #20: implicit. harvard. edu/implicit/demo/index/jsp, people in general are much slower at hearing positive words with the african. American faces: subconsciously we have learned an association between words; if something is negative we have associated that with something in our mind. Intergroup dynamics: realistic conflict theory, although it explains part of the reality, we know that we don"t like all the out- groups to the same degree.
