PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ingroups And Outgroups

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH230
• Professor: John Rempel

Document Summary

: anyone who"s a citizen and over a certain age (18). Everyone is allowed on a jury but lots of people can"t be on a jury. Someone who"s gone through the events of the trial in their past, personally affected by the same event, someone without any law enforcement background. People with higher education etc are too influential so lawyers don"t want them. Representative of the population: a certain level of representation you don"t want people from one demographic group or ideology. Impartial: if you"re going to make a judgement you"re going to try and eliminate a bias, called prejudice. Can occur in various levels, the prejudice is looking at the person and not judging them on the evidence before you but on your preconceived ideas. Generic prejudice: religion, political, ses, gender etc. its general, if you"re not in the in-group i"ll put you down, you"re not one of us. It"s more subtle, underground, implicit but still happens.