PSY100H1 Lecture 17: Cognitive Development
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People do indeed have a cognitive architecture from birth: however, this architecture is crude; it gives way to raw emotion very easily. Minimal group paradigm (mgp): one"s social preferences are easily determined by the rst stimulus one gets of someone else: if the rst interaction differs from one"s preferences, one will be inclined to oppose the other. We are not better they are not worse. If we see people commit atrocities, we can assume that they are not like us" and that there"s something wrong with the other. However, there is an alternative to the mgp: the common ingroup identity model (ciim) In the ciim, the us" is expanded to include more values (and thus people), such as superordinate goals, identities, and interdependence. However, eagles & rattlers noted that this peace" was very fragile; easy to disrupt: anything which highlights an other" within the diverse demographics will cause the.
