PSYCH 360 Lecture Notes - Case Black, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Stereotype
26 Mar 2013
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Teacher has to put victims hand on shock plate. Younger ra in street clothes has to substitute 20% Teacher told to select the level of shock (control) Unknown doctor called nurses and asked them to administer twenty milligrams of the drug astroten to a patient on the ward. Nearly all were about to administer the drug before being stopped and debriefed by one of the researchers. A generalization about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members. A hostile or negative attitude toward a distinguishable group of people, based solely on their membership in that group. An unjustifiable negative or harmful action toward a member of a group, simply because of his or her membership in that group. The tendency to rely on over-simplified generalizations to resist information that complicates our categorical distinctions.
