SOP 3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Realistic Conflict Theory, Minimal Group Paradigm, Social Comparison Theory

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOP 3004
• Professor: Sheppard James

Document Summary

Frustration aggression hypothesis: pain/frustration create hostility explain group level hostility. Frustration leads groups to act out against other groups. particularly groups lower than oneself. Scapegoat theory: o redirection/displacement of hostilities towards others, often those who cannot retaliate. Realistic conflict theory: resources that we want- good jobs and homes are limited and we must compete to gain them. This occurs at a group level and prejudice stems from competititon. Sherif robbers cave experiment: minimal group paradigm. Social cognition: categorization-we naturally categorize things when we first see them, study: kids are born color blind, if they dont learn color they wont learn to discriminatie. False: kids will actively categorize people based on skin color and sex. Kids then lead to believe discussion of skin color is taboo. Ingroup favoritsm will occur early-for instance when kids given different color shirts would group up based on color and consider themselves superior to other colors. This extends to criminals and leads to profiling.