Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ageism, Ingroups And Outgroups, Negative Feedback
15 Feb 2018
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Stereotypes: cognition: stereotypes are composites of beliefs that we attribute to categories of people, culture specific, categorize people to reflect the value hierarchies within culture, can be positive, negative, neutral. Examples of stereotypes: positive, patriotism, wise, generous, story teller, negative forgetful, poor drivers, dependent, inflexible old fashioned. Language and aging: negative, geezer, fossil, old fogey, positive, senior, senior citizen mature adult, retired person, older adult, elder, most neutral. Age prejudice / ageism: cognition and emotion, negative attitudes toward older adults based on belief that aging makes people, unattractive, unintelligent, asexual, unemployable, mentally incompetent. Treating people in an unjustly negative manner because of their chronological age (or appearance of age) and for no other reason. Assumptions/ judgments: generalizations about older people based on assumptions and. Older patients need more hugs: seems positive, but based on the assumption that all older adults are lonely. Characterizes older people are thought of as different from other people.
