PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - In-Group Favoritism, Confirmation Bias, Stereotype
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Stereotype: a set of attributes and traits associated with a group of people. Prejudice: biased evaluation of a group based on the traits associated with that group. Discrimination: negative behaviour towards someone based on their group membership. There is an infinite amount of stimuli in our environment and unfortunately we have a limited cognitive system so we categorize things to remember larger amounts of information that is associated in one large bulk. These are also based on some small elements of truth. Are fast and efficient but have a tendency to be overgeneralized. In-group is the group we considered ourselves a part of. Out-groups are considered the foreign groups we do not associate ourselves with. We tend to think more positively of in-groups than out-groups. Romer, jamieson & decoteau (1998) findings: perpetrators and victims tend to be of the same race (10% black on whites vs. 18% white on black)
