BCS 185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Detection Theory, False Alarm, Mahzarin Banaji
19 Oct 2016
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Background: humans tend to be motivated to increase status of ingroups at expense of others. More connection to ingroups stigmatization of outgroups. Stereotypes: beliefs what we know" about a social group overgeneralized concepts about attributes of a class of targets. Not just about people, but stereotype objects too. Created through experience/learned beliefs: once formed, beliefs persist, we seek info to confirm stereotypes. Prejudice: attitudes how we feel" about social group contains affective info, which is more descriptive. Tend to favor ingroups, and bad about outgroups. Can be both negative/positive people can have positive attitudes towards groups in certain domains (eg. , asians are good at math) Can shape perceptions of others" actions/intentions: use cognitive shortcuts bias our perceptions. Discrimination: behavior how we act towards members of social group. Enacting certain behaviors because we have prejudice, stereotypes. A power dynamic still exists b/w minority & non- minority groups) Understanding processes is necessary to contribute to prevention: consequences of prejudicial beliefs.
