PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Illusory Correlation, Newfie, Siamese Cat
18 Jan 2017
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Origins of stereotype content: family, the media, direct experience. The potential to form stereotypes is inborn based on the tendency to categorize. Stereotypes themselves are enculturated, and culturally transmitted through: Infants as young as 6 months can categorize pretty well. 3-4 years: children prefer one race over the other (usually but not always their ingroup race - black children preferred white group, may have to do with toys which are predominantly white) Elementary school: coherent ideas of what different groups are like, able to speak in a stereotyped way, remains malleable (hear and parrot, but may not believe what they are saying) 10-11 years: stereotypes have been established, content and complexity of stereotypes is comparable to 18 year olds. Kids pick up information from authority figures (parents), including stereotypes and prejudices. Direct transmission: overt instruction about different groups and their characteristics, teaching. E. g. child dressed in kkk outfit is indoctrinated into a hate group.
