COM ARTS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Homophily, Social Identity Theory, Fundamental Attribution Error
14 Mar 2017
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Immediate reaction through communication = 3 dimensional as perception. Involves continuous practice & improvement (the most important) Interpretation: brain does interpretation, makes connection, tells what that means. Ca 260: fixed, strong, we are sometimes relying on biases such as gender, race, etc, how the world operate, people make assumptions about others and that have dramatic. Implicit associations (greenwald, mcghee, & schwartz, 1998: associations often based in language acquisition, socialization, etc, associations determine in-group/out-group & sense of self. Internal causes: did(cid:374)"t study hard e(cid:374)ough, not good at (cid:373)ath, got (cid:374)er(cid:448)ous, external causes, class is terrible, distrupted by others. I got a because i studied hard: other=external, my friend got nice job because her boss likes her, negative, self=external. I got into car accident=the other driver was drunken: other=internal, mom got i(cid:374)to car accide(cid:374)t=she did(cid:374)"t pay atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374, favor to ourselves. There is a frame suggesting, suddenly legitilizing racial bias: ways to see the world around us: framing african-americans and latino-
