PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 44: Ingroups And Outgroups, Face Perception, Classical Conditioning
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Discrimination : (1) in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus. (2) in social psychology, unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members. Just-world phenomenon : the tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get. Ingroup : us people with whom we share a common identity. Ingroup bias : the tendency to favor our own group. Other-race effect : the tendency to recall faces of one"s own race more accurately than faces of other races. also called the cross-race effect and the own-race bias. Own-age bias : better recognition memory for faces of one"s own age group. Aggression : physical/verbal behavior intended to harm someone physically/emotionally. Frustration-aggression principle : the principle that frustration the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal creates anger, which can generate aggression.
