PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Realistic Conflict Theory, Ingroups And Outgroups, Social Proof

• School: University of Denver
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Pamela Miller

Document Summary

Attitudes, predicting behavior, relationships and mating preferences, social organization, stereotypes prejudice and discrimination, helping and aggressive behavior, conformity compliance and obedience. Stereotypes: a belief that certain traits are associated with members of a certain group (cognitive) not necessarily bad. Prejudice: a feeling or attitude toward members of a group based solely on group membership (affective) Discrimination: the behavioral product of prejudice (behavioral-prejudice in action) Competition over valued resources leads to hostility etc. Predictions of rct: more stereotyping of out-group, relations with out-group increasingly hostile, more loyalty to in group, biased evaluation of in group"s perfor(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e relati(cid:448)e to out-group. Is there (cid:862)ge(cid:374)ui(cid:374)e altruis(cid:373)(cid:863)?-many people think know because just by helping someone you feel better. Why we help: social norms-if they rest of society would help, you feel obligated to do the same, reciprocity norms=we help people who have helped us (gift giving at christmas, social-responsibility norm-we help people who need help.