PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Equal Opportunity, Aversive Racism, Henri Tajfel
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Stereotyping and prejudice: groups are not unique to humans. He said that we all have pictures in our heads (p. 3) of the world outside and that their representations are more likely templates into which we try to simplify the sometimes-confusing information we receive from the world. O lippmann"s stereotype : after lippmann, researchers generally began to regard stereotyping as a very negative, lazy way of perceiving social groups. Stereotyping was seen as an outward indicator of irrational, no analytic cognition. An example of rigid thinking: allport: a stereotype is an exaggerated belief associated with a category. Schemas are therefore broader cognitive structures that contain our knowledge of a stimulus, our expectations for the motives or behaviour of the stimulus (if a living being) and our feelings toward the stimulus. Example page 5: stereotype: a set of beliefs about the personal attributes of a group of people ashmore and del boca. O is a stereotype an attitude: some say yes.
