PSY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ingroups And Outgroups, Contact Hypothesis, Morgan Freeman
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Victims of discrimination may blame themselves for their poor performance thus minimizing the discrimination they experience. This may help the victims to preserve: a sense of social acceptance o o. The contact hypothesis: an effective way of reducing prejudice is through contact bringing in-group and out-group members together. This is known as the contact hypothesis o: mere contact alone is not enough! o. If it were, desegregation in the united states would have solved race issues. According to the contact hypothesis, contact situations must include: mutual interdependence, a common goal o o, multiple contacts o. The jigsaw classroom is a classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice and to raise the self-esteem of children by: Placing them in small desegregated groups o: making each child dependent on the other children in the group to: Create cross group friendships: make other group members aware of these friendships. The general consensus of the students is acceptance of one another.
