PSY322H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Subcategorization, Illusory Correlation, Relative Deprivation
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Psy322 lecture 2. 5 and 3. Versus the stereotype: want to be fair, good, and rational (correct) You don"t even realize you have stereotypes. The more you activate them, the stronger it gets and the more linked it is in your brain. If it"s important to you, you will change, it takes a long time to switch out 15- 20 years of thinking. They are under conscious awareness and we do them automatically and it"s reinforced by our culture over and over again. Subcategorization characteristics: trait stereotypes tend to be stored as applied to all group members, form subcategories when encountering stereotype inconsistent. What would those actors, those subcategorized out- group members think if you said. No they"ll think you"re prejudiced. Lecture 2. 5: origins and maintenance. People tend to overestimate the core association between the variables of stereotyped groups and the type of behaviour. You"ll start to notice confirmation of these stereotypes.
