PSY 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aversive Racism, Type Physicalism, Confirmation Bias
31 Oct 2018
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A type of attitude, a type of evaluation of something, or a group of people, and contains an affect, behavior, and cognition component. The person is very obvious about their prejudices. The expression of one"s prejudices changes over time because that person realizes that the prejudice they have is not socially acceptable anymore. Another reason why someone will have a subtle display is that they don"t know that they harbor that prejudice. Example: it"s not like i hate gay people, but it"s not natural . Really describing the people that cannot acknowledge that they have prejudice) Somebody is not aware of the prejudices they harbor. Some little things that people do or say that reflect their. Aggression: when you are trying to hurt somebody in any way. The study shows that the aversive group took the longest because they just wouldn"t admit or realize their prejudices.
