PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: White Privilege, Gordon Allport, Backtracking
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Media, peers, parents, personal experience, culturally received information. Gordon allport (1954) described stereotyping as (cid:392)the law of least effort(cid:393) If we"re all exposed to the same information, we"re likely to develop similar cognitive connotations. More abstract way of describing a group. As though it"s specific to that person. For examples of linguistic bias, listen to sports commentators. Descriptions of ingroup and outgroup behavior vary in level of abstraction. Small-scale everyday verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights, invalidations, and insults to an individual or group because of their marginalized status in society. Microinvalidation: communications that subtly exclude, negate, or nullify the thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person"s identity. Example: color blindness, pictures that represent organization as homogenous, accusing an offended person is just being sensitive. Yubing: seattle, a city in the state of washington.
