Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: European Canadian, Implicit-Association Test, Social Dominance Orientation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Rachel Calogero

Document Summary

Lecture 6: prejudice dark side of intergroup relations. Stereotypes: simpli ed but widely shared beliefs about the characteristics of groups & their members collected. Rest on some form of the truth. Asians should be good at math & should want to go into engineering. Prejudice: negative affective prejudgment about a group & its individual members. Discrimination: negative treatment of a group member because of their group membership. Ideological & personality; authoritarianism, social dominance orientation. Socialization; learned in a prejudice environment - can be changed. Intergroup competition; context-speci c, realistic con ict - can be changed. Eg robbers cave study - boys assigned to groups > symbolism around groups. Brought groups together & created competitions (desirable prizes) Hostility & prejudice towards other group members. Reconciliation sort of reached when the only way to win was to work together. Social identity; perceive own group as superior - can be changed. Cognitive limitations; cognitive misers; rely on heuristics - working memory load.