PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Terror Management Theory, Ageism, Gender Role
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Prejudice from perceivers and targets for the elderly and women. Ageism: stereotyping based on age usually based on the elderly, but can also occur for teenagers, effect of holding stereotypes as young people will affect us when we get older. Sexism discrimination based on sex, gender: hostile sexism, the people who most endorse ambivalent sexism support more inequality between men and women. Student saying older lawyer might have alzheimer s shows stereotypes about elderly. Ageism: a group we are more okay with expressing stereotypes about. Do this with obese people also: definition: stereotypes, prejudice & discrimination based on age. Facets of ageism: some people have argued that with teenagers in our society are probably victims of ageism somewhere in that age, they are physical mature, mostly mentally mature, yet there are rules that are discriminatory: Can t drink, drive before a certain age.