PSYC 215 Lecture : April 5.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Michael Sullivan

Document Summary

Stereotypes beliefs that associate a whole group of people with certain traits. Prejudice negative feelings about others because of their connection to a social group. Discrimination negative behaviours directed against persons because of their membership in a particular group. Stereotypes category judgements you bring to certain group: men are aggressive, women are sweet, how you finish sentence represents your stereotype of that group, different countries, different linguistic groups. The worst meeting imaginable: organized by italians, cooking by british, entertainment by germans Sts are belief about the personal attributes of people who belong to certain group of people: over-generalized, inaccurate, resistant to new information. Deep down we hold st or prejudice in high stress situation, language towards the person who you hid your st of, will appear. Headlines: make links between certain groups and certain actions, ex: someone frompsychiatric hospital sexually abuses young girl.