PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Desegregation, Realistic Conflict Theory, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Chapter 16: social psychology: social psychology, attribution, attribution theory. How other people influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions: dispositional attribution- (internal)- decide cause of a person"s behavior is something. Principles used to judge causes of events, and our own and others" behavior. Concerned with when and how people ask why questions about him or her (ex. Guy bumps into you and doesn"t apologize b/c he"s a jerk: situational attribution- (external) decide cause of a person"s behavior was something about situation (ex. Prejudice- an attitude, usually negative, toward members of some group, based solely on membership in that group. Discrimination- negative actions toward groups that are targets of prejudice. As prejudice is a particular kind of attitude, we can draw two implications: prejudices act as a type of schema- process information differently, prejudices can be implicit- can be triggered by simple exposure to group. Sources of prejudice: prejudice and stereotypes save cognitive effort.
