PSYC12H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Theory Of Reasoned Action, Authoritarian Personality, Normative Social Influence
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Chapter 1: intro to the study of stereotyping and prejudice. Humans have a tendency to form groups. Membership can be restricted on the basis of special skills, family relations, gender, power, and a host of other factors: forming such groups can make their daily lives easier: ex. Through division of labor among various groups in society order within society (eg. by government) led to longer, happier and more fulfilling lives so leads to idea that groups are the basic building blocks of society . Tendency to form groups isn"t unique to humans= basic part of nature that conveyed survival benefits (fighting off predators, raising offspring successfully) that withstood time and evolution: however disadvantages= mate competition, mate retention. Crimes driven by prejuidice: wars: spanish inquisition, american civil war, american slave trade, Holocaust, genocides in rwanda and yugoslavia: recent crimes in america (while many believe that desegregation, the.
