Psychology 2070A/B Chapter 9: Lecture and Textbook Notes for Chapter 9
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Interest in social psychology stimulated by prejudice (stalin, hitler, Stereotype a set of characteristics that a perceiver associates with members of a group: cognitive beliefs, informational, can be positive or negative, form of schema. Prejudice a negative attitude toward members of a group: attitude, evaluation, often very strongly held (e. g. hatred, always negative, pre-judging in a negative way. Discrimination negative, harmful behavior toward people based on their group membership: behavioural, observable, always negative, external behavior. Most hate crimes are against institutions, not individuals (i. e. places of worship) Cognitive perspective prejudice results from normal thinking processes. In order to perceive objects as meaningful, we must categorize them categorization of objects is inevitable: information-processing view, things we all do (to some extent) that may expose us to prejudice, everyday pressures. Categorizations made instantly: gender, ethnicity, age (relatively automatically) Going beyond the information given drawing inferences about the individual from the stereotype.
