PSYC-105 FA4 Lecture 4: Psych 105 lecture 4
10 Aug 2018
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Social identity theory- suggests that our sense of self or self esteem is very closely linked to the groups that we identify ourselves with. People categorize the world into in-groups and out-groups. Self esteem depends in part on how your ingroup is evaluated relative to outgroups. Self- schema: the cognitive association you have of yourself; self esteem is the affective component (how we feel about ourselves) Social learning theory (sit)- learning negative attitudes and beliefs about members of social groups. Social categorization- process of categorization lends itself to stereotyping. Self fulfilling prophecy- when people"s attitudes toward different social groups leads them to behave toward members of those groups in a way that allows them to confirm the expectation. Contact hypothesis- under the right circumstances, increased contact between social groups can decrease prejudice. Increase similarity/recategorization- reduce sit effects by indicating person is an in-group member on other dimensions.
