PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Biceps, Triceps Brachii Muscle, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Reduce prejudice and biases: individual approaches, group-based approaches, target approaches. Pessimism in prejudice research: this class has focused on the dark side of psych what happens when things go wrong, etc. Stereotypes are functional and adaptive how we learn about the world, unfortunately has negative consequences: our world conspires against us to make us more prejudice culture, our subgroup, our own psychology, are automatic and implicit. People don"t want to admit to it honestly but it doesn"t mean it"s gone away just changed form. Inevitable forms of prejudice will we always have these prejudices: basic message of these causes: prejudice is not benign, has a long term effect, etc. What about the bright side: important that people are aware of own biases and world biases but also important that there are things we can do to make the world better. Individual approaches: approaches that target any one person.
