PSYCH 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: G1 Phase, Canadian Human Rights Act
15 Apr 2016
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February 2, 2016 discriminaion in the workplace. What discriminaion is and is not: the triparite model. Stereotypes are the shared generalizaion about people based on category membership. Can be useful with cues from the environment. Descripive vs. prescripive: what is or what group members are like vs. what should be or how group members should be or behave. Prejudice is negaive feelings towards certain groups and individual members of those groups. Become the jusiicaion for feeling negaive or posiive towards certain groups. Discriminaion is the unjusiied negaive or harmful behaviour toward a member of a group simply because of that person"s membership in that group. Key word is the behaviour not because someone has done right or wrong, but simply because they are in a speciic group, you behave diferently. Situaions might cue you to have negaive feelings towards a group. Stereotypes are cogniive, prejudice is afecive and prejudice is behavioural. A necessary but not suicient condiion for discriminaion.
