PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Chinese Fire Drill, Carl Beam, Ethnocentrism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Referring to anyone who live outside the christian country. When each person pays his own expense. Links the french language with negative language. A person who gives a gift and then takes it back. When you describe the statistics you are right. But if you use this to apply to individuals and discriminate them it is stereotypes. Lippmann, a political journalist, described stereotype as the pictures in our heads . Then applied to other people (you have a prototype of something in your head) We learn from others around us, the media we are exposed to, all contribute into this. Grouping people on the basis of gender, ethnicity, age, and other attributes. Ingroup favoritism (we are the best, they are inferior) Outgroup homogeneity (others are all the same, we are different) Despite less interaction with outgroups, they still form stereotypes against them. Automatic and controlled process of stereotypes are distinct.