PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pepe The Frog, Social Cognition, Ingroups And Outgroups

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 260
• Professor: Lara Aknin

Document Summary

Prejudice has 3 parts, and it is an attitude. This component can be more or less (ie: older adults, cranky old men) Most commonly, negative attitudes are directed at a group because of a membership to a group. Unjustified negative/harmful actions towards a member of a group baed only on the membership to a group. Generalization about a group of people where characteristics are assigned to all members of a group regardless of any variation amongst members. Ie: football players are all big strong dumb men. What causes prejudice: social cognition (this is the outcome of schemas, or out-group homogeneity) Prejudice is the outcome of using schemas (overgeneralize situations) Grouping the world into a us (our country) vs. them (every other country) [groups we are in vs groups we are not in] = social identity theory. In group bias: we prefer groups that we are in.