PSY322H1 : PSY322 MT Notes.docx
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Gordon allport (1954) is one of the best known social psychologists of the 20th century. Argued that prejudice includes 2 things: attitude of favour/disfavour, overgeneralized, erroneous belief. Contemporary psychologists disagree w/ the erroneous belief the beliefs are not necessarily erroneous: beliefs (stereotypes) are separate from the affective attitudes (prejudice) & behaviour (discrimination) towards others. Is stereotyping necessarily a bad thing: humans categorize everything to cut down info processing stereotyping isn"t bad, what you do w/ it is. Racial stereotypes in encyclopedia britannica: before the u. s. civil rights movement reached its peak, the entry for. Races of mankind relied on centuries-old pseudoscientific stereotypes of. The affective/emotional reaction to another person of a particular group (or to the group itself) is separate from beliefs (stereotypes) Individual behaviour, institutional policies and practices, and cultural values: levels of discrimination, interpersonal discrimination. : from one person to another individual basis. : stereotypic beliefs, evaluations (prejudice), or both: organizational discrimination.
