PS200 Lecture Notes - Illusory Correlation, Ingroups And Outgroups, Fundamental Attribution Error
10 May 2013
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This becomes a vicious cycle, a no win scenario . Robert brooks both children and adults need charismatic adults, or adult role models. Effects of discrimination: motivation and performance decreases, negative outlook (jaded) Quota system = elevates some people to a certain standard. Origins of prejudice and discrimination: our hard-wired tendencies (tribal/evolutionary survival, attaching values, social learning. Sherif"s robber"s cave (inter-group conflicts) separated children into two groups and got them to compete and the groups started to hate each other. The only way to fix that was to have. Superordinate goals, or set goals that made it necessary for the two groups to work together.
