01:830:321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: H Engine, Ingroups And Outgroups, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:321
• Professor: David Wilder

Document Summary

Prejudice: negative judgment of persons because of the group(s) to which they belong (affect) Stereotype: a belief about the attributes of a group of people (cognition) Discrimination: unjustified negative behavior toward members of a group (behavior) Inevitable that they develop: not inevitable they influence how we view people if we are aware of them. Absolute magnitude: a belief that is true for the majority of the target group. Relative: a belief that is more true for target group than for other groups. Relative: compared to other candidates, sanders" supporters are mostly small donors. Looked up statistics of donor information from opensecrets. org (3/21/16) Most of sanders" financial support is from smallest donor category no. Relative: is more of sanders" support from the smallest donor category than others: in absolute dollars yes, in percentages no. Provide expectations to guide our behaviour (best guess) Provide a context in which to evaluate or interpret another"s behaviour: eg assertiveness and women in traditional male roles.