PSYA02H3 Lecture : Lecture 24

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

Document Summary

Prejudice is a negative attitude toward a group of people. Katz and braly conducted an experiment of stereotype in princeton university. Students were asked to check the appropriate adjectives that describe the cultural group. A consent and agreement about the characteristics of each cultural group. A change in american perspective about the japan after the sudden pearl harbour attack. But inaccuracy in superiority, no one group is higher than the other group. Ex. immigrants are less educated or less healthier. People that are brought up in a prejudiced environment. Immigrants compete with local people for the same job. Authoritarian parents cause the kids to obey and dislike them simultaneously. Conformity, scared of what others will think about him by having a certain type of though.