ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Selective Perception, Verbal Abuse, Illusory Correlation

• School: MSU
• Department: Integrative Studies Social Sci
• Course: ISS 210
• Professor: J. Yelinek

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Week 6 - iss 210 - october 1 notes - chapter 4&5. Prejudice is a negative attitude towards individuals from stereotypes. Further categorized according to intensity or action. Racism: the belief that some races are superior and others are inferior. Grounded in the belief of supremacy over some races. Devalues and renders certain racial or ethnic groups based on biological fields. It is impossible to meaningfully process all available stimuli from our environment, so we engage in selective perception. 3 steps of selective perception: selective exposure, selective attention, selective retention. In this stage, we group people, objects and events on the basis of similarities. Serves a number of functions : reducing uncertainty, delineating distinctions between ingroups and outgroups. Sometimes not so positive /// categorization can also lead us to overlook individual differences and over generalize about others. In this stage, meaning is: attached to the sensory data we have filtered and received.