Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Authoritarian Personality, Serial Position Effect, Social Stigma

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

All attitudes have 3 components: affect, behavioural, and cognition. At the core of prejudice is often fear of frustration. Scapegoats are group of people towards whom the aggression is directed, ex. There are types of personality more subject to prejudice the authoritarian personality: they"re obedient to superiors, but don"t have much sympathy for those they deem inferior to themselves oppressive. And rigid thinkers, inflexible with their viewpoints: they use prejudice to protect their ego and avoid confronting aspects of themselves because they"re always focussed on others, personality type is hard to change. Frustration aggression hypothesis not personality based, but more emotional: ex. When someone"s frustrated, frustrations turn to aggressive impulses, and direct that towards the employer. But you may lose your job, so you keep bottling up the aggression and rechannel it somewhere else. Often towards minorities: display aggression towards other people scapegoating.