PSY100H1 Study Guide - Stereotype Threat, Stereotype, Implicit-Association Test
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Researchers found that prejudice originated and was maintained within the majority perceiver of the minority target. Devine et al suggest that stereotyping and prejudice are not processes that involve a perceiver regarding an inactive target of stereotyping. Stereotyping and prejudice occur in a dynamic social contect involving the perceiver and target reacting to each other. Two-way street: feedback from target that often confirms the expectations of the perceiver with the perceiver"s behavior often them confirming the expectations of the target. The treatment from others was not especially positive, this probably made you feel negative toward those others and about yourself. People try to fit in with the majority so they will not be singled out for ridicule or treated negatively by others. Treatment is overt among children, who not having learned socially sophisticated methods of experessing disapproval will have no compunction about telling everyone and the individual in question about the target"s deficiencies (laughter, cruel jokes or physical hostility)
