PSY 202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pluralistic Ignorance, Social Loafing, Inattentional Blindness

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Kosha Bramesfeld

Document Summary

The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. Attributions: attribution theory, attributions - assigning causes to behaviour. Stereotypes a generalized belief about a group of people: humans are cognitive misers - we strive to save mental energy by simplifying reality. In-group bias favour those perceived as part of the in-group : minimal group paradigm, can lead to out-group denigration, out-group homogeneity tendency to view out-group members as highly similar. Structural inequality: access to housing and safe neighbourhoods, access to schooling, education, and experiences, access to social power, social wellness, and social influence, access to opportunity, success, and self-determination. Social privilege a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. Reducing prejudice: change in-group versus out-groups" perceptions. Fight and vote against structural inequality (historical & current) Self-perception theory - theory that we acquire our attitudes by observing our behaviours.