PSYC 2310 Study Guide - Final Guide: Relative Deprivation, Henri Tajfel, Impression Management
21 Oct 2015
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Intergroup behaviour whenever individuals belonging to one group interact, collectively or individually, with another group or its members in terms of their group identification, we have an instance of intergroup behaviour sherif (1966, p. 12) Dyadic level happens at individuals: people who belong to different groups and identify with different groups, both people know they belong to different groups and represent different values, symbolically representing different groups. Intergroup level when we have multiple members of different groups come in contact with each other: when two groups of people interact with each other about an issue. The way we think is based on categorizing the world around us. Categorization is one of the fundamental cognitive processes in humans. Categorization the lumping together of objects and events into meaningful groupings (brewer and miller, 1996) Meaningfulness of objects is something that is added: something that is meaningful in 2015 was meaningless in 1950. Why do we categorize: to reduce complexity of the world.
