PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Illusory Correlation, Implicit-Association Test, Minimal Group Paradigm
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When people feel threatened they are much more likely to be prejudice. Israel-palestine: they are constantly dehumanizing each other because they are in strict competition for land. Feeling threatened and being in competition can lead to prejudice. By the late 1950s, psychology as a field had begun to shift from an emphasis on learning theory and behaviourism to a more cognitive approach. Information-processing models had a large impact on our understanding of prejudice. In the midst of this cognitive revolution, people started to focus on the brain like an information processing system. This has a huge impact on how psychologists see stereotyping and prejudice. A brief history: the social-cognition view of stereotyping and prejudice. Tajfel (1969) was one of the first assert that stereotyping originates from a normal process of social categorization. Sometimes prejudice has nothing to do with threat or competition.
