PSYC 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Contact Hypothesis, Ethnocentrism, Jane Elliot
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Stereotyping and prejudice: social categorization and group based thinking. Saves cognitive resources: stereotyping helps to free up mental capacity. Stereotyping: associating people with particular attributes based on their group membership, is cognitive, can stereotype people based on race, religion political affiliation, etc, implicit and explicit stereotypes are not always correlated. Prejudice (negative: disliking people based on their group membership, can be implicit and explicit, prejudice without compunction. Prejudices that you don"t feel bad about. Ex: not feeling bad about having prejudices against overweight people because you feel like they do it to themselves. Stereotypes can lead to prejudice and prejudice can lead to stereotyping. Discrimination: acting on one"s stereotypes and prejudices. Outgroup homogeneity: the tendency to individuate members of one"s own group more than members of other groups. We"re all unique, but that other group is all alike : stereotype threat. A disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on that negative stereotype.
