Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Stereotype Threat, Aversive Racism, Ultimate Attribution Error
7 Apr 2018
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De nitions: prejudice: a hostile or negative attitude toward people in a distinguishable group. Prejudice is ubiquitous: both minority and majority groups can be targets of stereotyping and prejudice, stereotypes are held most often for social groups (ex. Racial and ethnic groups: many aspects of one"s identity are vulnerable to prejudice, gender stereotyping, present at an early stage, we associate several occupations with mainly one gender, male jobs were given a higher salary than female jobs. Then you have to rate the face, from negative to positive. Activating stereotypes: the level of prejudice does not solely pends on stereotypes about a group, meta-stereotyping: Attributions and prejudice: the ultimate attribution error refers to the tendency to make dispositional attributions about an entire group of people, additionally, for outgrips, poor outcomes are seen as dispositionally-caused and successful outcomes are seen as situationally-cause.
