PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: In-Group Favoritism, Social Inequality, Thematic Apperception Test
13 Jun 2016
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Prejudice an unjustified, usually negative attitude toward a group. Support for interracial dating has increased by generation. Social inequality when some groups have fewer resources and opportunities than others. The just-world phenomenon those doing well must have done something right so those suffering must have done something wrong. Even if people are randomly assigned to groups, our natural drive to belong leads to ingroup bias. One way we simplify our world is to categorize. They look and act alike but we are more diverse. We have a greater recognition for our own race faces. Cognitive roots of prejudice: judging based on vivid cases. Availability heuristic stereotypes are built on vivid cases rather than statistics. Confirmation bias we are not likely to look for counterexamples to our stereotypes. Hindsight bias they should have known better blames victims for misfortunes. Cognitive dissonance my culture and family treats minorities this way, can we be wrong? .
