PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ingroups And Outgroups, Stroop Effect, Amygdala
11 Mar 2018
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Stereotypes (cognition): thoughts about beliefs of some kind. Prejudice (affect): a negative attitude or affective response toward a certain group and its individual members. Discrimination (behaviour): a negative behaviour towards members of a particular group based on their membership in that group. Your perception of the world is guided by prior experience, biases, and heuristics. A concept is represented by a prototype (ideas about how these individuals should behave) People can be categorized as in-group or out-group members. Appropriate and inappropriate behaviours for a first date. You have a fast automatic behaviour of what is acceptable in certain situations. We form impressions of certain locations to make decisions of our actions. Individuals in university don"t like working with older individuals (bc they don"t take their. You come to conclusions quickly just by looking at images. Categorization allows us to make predictions about group members.
