Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ageism, Stereotype, Mental Model

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lin

Document Summary

Attitudes and social issues that affect older people . Sociological perspectives for explaining ageism in canadian society: Social psychological theories of socialization : why do negative attitudes about and discrimination towards older persons persist in. In general, social groups that don"t compete with the ingroup are perceived as warm; social groups that are not high in status (e. g. , economically) are considered incompetent. The bias continuum: bias represents a prejudice; a preconceived opinion about someone or something. Implicit or unconscious bias represents social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside of their own conscious awareness: hidden and unintentional. Aging lecture 2 notes on readings: young as positive captured the specific sentiment that being, acting or looking younger was preferable to being, acting, or looking older. Infantilization: the lexicon that expressed childlike attributes that deny maturity in age or experience, words such as cute, little, and adorable.