PSYS 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stereotype Threat, Social Cognition, Stereotype

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Psychological Science
• Course: PSYS 001
• Professor: Lawrence Rudiger

Document Summary

Social psychology: the scientific study of how we feel about, think about, and behave toward the other people around us, and how those people influence our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Social situation: the people with whom we are interacting. Social cognition: the part of human thinking that helps us understand predict the behavior of ourselves and other. Attitudes: our enduring evaluations of people or things. Social norms: the accepted beliefs about what we do or what we should do in particular social situations. Stereotyping: tendency to attribute personality characteristics to people based on their external appearance or their social group memberships. Prejudice: the tendency to dislike people because of their appearance or group memberships. Discrimination: negative behaviors toward others based on prejudice. Self-fulfilling prophecy: when our expectation about the personality characteristics of others lead us to behave in ways that makes those beliefs come true. Social identity: the positive emotions that we experience as a result of our group memberships.