PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Fundamental Attribution Error, Hogwarts, Stereotype Threat

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Catherine Rawn

Document Summary

Prejudice: a hostile or negative attitude toward people in a distinguishable group based solely on their membership in that group. Stereotypes: a generalization about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned to all members of the group regardless of actual variation among the members. Discrimination: unjustified negative or harmful action towards a member of a group simply because of his/her membership in the group. Causes of prejudice: social categorization: us vs them (old people vs young people, in-group bias: tendency to evaluate in-group members more positively than out-group members (hogwarts houses) Perceptions of discrimination related to symptoms of depression. Stereotype threat: the apprehension or fear by members of minority group that they might behave in a manner that confirms an existing cultural stereotype (ex. cultural differences in academic performance) Fundamental attribution error: tendency to overestimate the dispositional causes of people"s behaviour and underestimate situational factors. Dispositional influences: enduring characteristics of the person.