PSYC12H3 : PSYC12- CH 1 notes
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Chapter 1- introduction to the study of stereotyping and prejudice. Groups are the basic building blocks of society. Stereotypes: believing that certain characteristics are associated with other groups, often because the outgroup members are perceived to be antithetical or the ingroup"s welfare or values. Some of the most intense intergroup hostility has been based on a difference in religious beliefs. Any group one can imagine has been the object of prejudices and stereotypes by other groups or individuals. Stereotype" derives from a term to describe a printing process in which fixed casts of material are reproduced. Walter lippmann used the word stereotype" to describe the tendency of people to think of someone or something in similar terms (same attributes) based on a common feature shared by each. Pictures in our heads" of the world outside and that these representations are more like templates into which we try to simplify the sometimes confusing information we receive from the world.
