PSY BEH 104S Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Cognition, Ingroups And Outgroups, Contact Hypothesis
14 Dec 2016
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Motivational view: emphasizes motivated, emotional source of prejudice: social identity theory: self-esteem derived from groups, frustration-aggression: Categorization of people is inevitable, like with objects: most likely to categorize people based on salient visible characteristics. Form generalizations about people in groups stereotypes. People brought into lab and split into groups based on meaningless distinction: like art preferences. Demonstrate weak versions of: stereotyping: simple view of outgroup, prejudice: negative view of outgroup, discrimination: favor ingroup members with rewards. Us/them: occurs with no frustration, no specific upbringing, no history of group conglict. Simoly by belonging to one group and not another. Sometimes see these illusory correlations through glitches in our cognitive machinery: subjects overestimated extent to which two long words co- occurred paired distinctiveness. Can argue that similar phenomenon underlies negative perceptions on minority groups: minority members: distinctive due to infrequency, negative behaviors: distinctive due to infrequency. Overestimate the occurrence of negative events or negative actions.
