PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Realistic Conflict Theory, Self Esteem (Song), Scapegoating

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Michael Sullivan

Document Summary

Abcs of intergroup relationships: prejudice, discrimination and stereotypes. Prejudice is a negative attitude or feeling towards an individual based solely on that individual"s membership in a certain group. It illustrates racism, which is prejudiced attitudes towards a certain race. Today racism is more subtle than it was, and it takes the form of aversive racism, which is simultaneously holding egalitarian values and negative (aversive or unpleasant) feelings towards minorities. Prejudice often leads to discrimination, which is the unequal treatment of different people based on the groups or categories to which they belong. Stereotypes are beliefs that associate groups of people with certain traits. These are difficult to change, because people tend to throw exceptions to the rule into a separate category, called a subtype. Abcs = the affective component is prejudice, the behavioural component is discrimination, and the cognitive component is stereotyping. Categorizations allows us to more easily make sense of the world.