PSY 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Adaptive Management, Advantageous, Hypervigilance

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33% canadians believe aboriginal peoples and muslims are most frequent targets of discrimination. 28% thought pakistanis/east indians often suffer from intolerance. Often treated as if there were immigrant to canada. Ripped from families and put in __________________ where many suffered abuse. We flooded much of their land n. manitoba, destroying their cultural heritage and traditions. Beliefs about the attributes or characteristics of a group of people. Operates on the (cid:498)_________________(cid:499: categorization simplifies a complex social world, we maximize cognitive effort by adopting shortcuts. Allows us to attribute negative differences to biology and ignore the role or social forces. Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members. Police officers pulling over a car full of black men without justification. Airport security doing supposedly random searchers on muslims. Leasing agents not renting a 1 bedroom apartment to ________________ Canadians genuinely motivated to develop a multicultural society. Prejudice & discrimination surface when they can be disguised by some other motive.

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