PSYC 2P30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Authoritarianism, Fundamentalism
6 Dec 2016
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Definition of prejudice: attitudes-define as an evaluation of a person, object, or idea. They can be positive, negative, and neutral: prejudice define as a negative attitude towards toward a social group and individuals that make up that social group, based only on their membership in that group. Measurement of prejudice: implicit association test used to test modern racism. Which asses your prejudice an unconscious level. It measures speed of peoples positive and negative association to a particular group. In group bias the tendency to evaluate in group members more positive than out group members: our stereotypes about groups, our affect and mood, attributional processes, recall: fundamental attributional error (fae, ultimate attribution error, economic competition, norms to conform. Individual differences in prejudice: some people seem to hold more prejudicial views of people like , right-wing authoritarianism (rwa, religious fundamentalism, social dominance orientation people in high sdo believe prejudice of people they believe are draining sources.
