HLTC22H3 Lecture : PSYC12 – Lecture 2.docx
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Race/age/gender we categorize quickly: stereotypes are traits associated with a category, they can be useful in making predictions they come from observing the world and making generalizations based on what you see, they are fast and efficient, but, they are overgeneralizations especially when applied to an individual, groups, we categorize the social world into 2 groups. Even in groups that have no real reason to be together (minimal groups) i. e. at summer camp; blue team vs. red team you want to be loyal to your colour even though the people who were in your group were random: start to think of out groups as being all the same: og homogeneity effect. In the media, whites as twice as likely to be seen as victim than perpetrator: blacks are actually victims 80% but only shown 22, white victims are seen as more newsworthy, crime portrayals bias our perception of crime and amplify, parental influence stereotypes.
