PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Stereotype Threat, Social Cognition, Subtyping

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Brian Siefke

Document Summary

Social cognition- the processes by which people come to understand others. Stereotyping- the process by which we draw inferences about others based on o knowledge of the categories to which they belong. Stereotypes tend to have four properties: they are. Automatic: stereotypes can be inaccurate, we overestimate rare events. There are only two ways to acquire a belief about anything: to see yourself or to take somebody else"s word for it. Illusory correlations are an example: stereotypes can be overused. Misestimating variability within and across categories is an example: stereotypes can be self-perpetuating. Stereotypes are self-perpetuating for three reasons: perceptual confirmation- the tendency for people to see what they expect to see, self-fulfilling prophecy- tendency for people to cause what the expect to see. When people know observers have a negative stereotype about them, they may experience stereotype threat or fear of confirming an observer"s stereotype.