PSY220H1 Study Guide - Ambivalent Sexism, Stereotype Threat, Aversive Racism
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Discrimination- unjustified negative or harmful action / behavior toward members of a. Stereotype- a generalization about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned virtually to all members of a group regardless of actual variation among members: belief that members of a group share a particular attribute. Blatant racism has been on the decline. Aversive racism has replaced it: racism today is illegal in the u. s, ambivalent, conflicted feelings about race less overt than old fashioned racism less appearance of being racist, but racism still evident under certain conditions. Measures of implicit attitudes play a role here. People don"t think that they are prejudiced. However, stereotypes may progress so far beyond the available information as to become. Speeding processing is one thing; shaping and maintaining inaccurate attitudes is quite another. Negativity: stereotypes assume too much uniformity and sameness among a group, stereotypes are unduly unfavorable in their tone towards groups, stereotypes guide attention.