PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stereotype Threat, Structural Dynamics, Geometric Progression
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Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination: theoretical and empirical overview. Inter- group bias: refers to the tendency to evaluate one"s own membership group or its members more favorably than a non-membership group or its members. (in group vs. out group) Early theorists focused on individual differences, and associated prejudice with psychopathology (disease) [1970s and 1980s] cognitive revolution in psychology generated interest in how cognitive processes lead to stereotyping and prejudice simultaneously european researchers focused on how group processes and social identities affect bias. Both perspectives emphasized how normal psychological and social processes foster and maintain prejudice and stereotyping. Prejudice: an attitude reflecting an overall evaluation of a group. Stereotypes: associations, and attributions of specific characteristics to a group. Discrimination: biased behavior toward, and treatment of, a group or its members. Prejudice is an individual-level attitude (whether subjectively positive or negative) toward groups and their members that creates or maintains hierarchical status relations between groups.
