PSYC12H3 : Textbook Notes I
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In-group any group with which one affiliates themselves. Out-group any group with which one doesn"t affiliate themselves, group to which one doesn"t belong. Minimal group groups formed on arbitrary or random criteria (ex: random assignment) Prejudice a biased evaluation of a group, based on real or imagined characteristics of the group members (allows for both positive and negative) Stereotypes a set of beliefs about the personal attribution of a group of people. Lippmann"s stereotype originally from a term to describe a printing process. Lippmann use the word stereotype to describe the tendency of people to think of someone or something in similar terms (attributes) based on a common feature shared by each. stereotypes are largely determined by culture in which one lives. brigham (1971) stereotyping is a generalization made about a group concerning a trait attribution, which is considered to be unjustified by an observer .
