PSYC12H3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Stereotype, Ingroups And Outgroups, Psychology
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It is the tendency of people to think of someone or something in similar terms- that is, as having similar attributes. A stereotype is a cognitive heuristic mental short-cuts. We humans are intellectually lazy cognitive-misers = cheap a(cid:374)d do(cid:374)"t want to spend resources on figuring things out in the environment. Ancestors survived and thrived and evolved because of taking mental short cuts. Its too cognitively taxing to go out and understand every stimulus encountered in environment (social and non-social stimuli) We can see physical cues genetically programed to detect cues and draw conclusions. The evolutionary fall what was good for us in our evolved past is no longer good for us today. An individual = the beliefs held by an individual about the characteristic of a group. Cultural = shared or community wide spread patterns of beliefs. Prejudice = overarching definition of prejudice is the: A biased evaluation of group (emotional component) based on imagined characteristic of the group.
