PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Inhibition, Drive Theory, Juvenile Delinquency
9 Aug 2018
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Consistent minorities can be influential beacuse: disrupt majority norm, draw attention to the minority as entity, draw attention to an alternative position, demonstrate commitment. But they must: be consistent, avoid appearing rigid, similar to majority in other ways. Trapped by the concrete/perpetual features: caught by the significance of the levellheight water. Inability to imagine the process in reverse: must imagine reversing the pouring. Thoughts stereotypes - a generalisation about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned to virtually all members of the group regardless of actual variation among the group. Feelings prejudice - hostile or negative feelings toward a distinguishable group of people, based solely on their membership in that group. Behaviours discrimination - unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group, simply because of a membership in that group. Consistent behaviour internal attribution therefore stereotype maintained.
