PSYS 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Role, Fundamental Attribution Error, Confirmation Bias
15 Sep 2016
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Two or more people what at least one of three of the following characteristics: direct interactions with each other over a period of time, membership in a social category: republican, irish, shared identity or shared goals. Beliefs that associate with a whole group of people with a certain trait or group of traits. Formation: social categorization: people overestimate the difference between groups, and underestimate the similarity of people in a group, ingroup/outgroup: decide if a person is a member of group z . Ingroup favoritism: showing favoritism to people who are in your group. Outgroup homogeneity effect: people outside of group are seen as the same. Dehumanize outgroups: people in outgroups become things" not people. Factors affecting our formation of stereotypes: priming: what you"ve recently been exposed to, sociocultural factors: where you were raised, motivational factors: how we see people is affected by our need from them. Survival of the stereotype: stereotypes survive because .
