PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Realistic Conflict Theory, Sexual Orientation, Shared Belief
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Stereotypes (cogniive) prejudice (afecive ie scared of afam guys) discriminaion (behavioral ie crossing street to avoid people of diferent race) Stereotypes shared belief or expectaion about a group. Prejudice negaive evaluaion of a group (oten individuals) Can be based on real or imagined characterisics: can be things we heard from other people or observed ourselves. Overt racism: explicit (open) prejudice: ex: racial slurs, gay bashing, etc. Aversive racism: openly support equality, but hidden prejudice and discriminaion: more common. Everyone is aware of and afected by negaive stereotypes, but: low-prejudiced moivated to suppress prejudices, high-prejudiced not moivated to suppress prejudices, when conscious control is reduced, even unprejudiced slip into automaic prejudice. 2009 bay area bart shooing: oscar grant shot and killed. Michael brown, trayvon marin, eric garner, john crawford, tamir rice, jessie hernandez. Discriminaion negaive act towards a person/group because of group membership. Can be expressed through slurs, not calling someone back for an interview because of jose vs.
