PSYC 4450 Study Guide - Final Guide: Edial, Sociobiology, Essentialism
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What is prejudice: one aspect of prejudice is stereotyping, two types of stereotypes: descriptive and prescriptive. Descriptive stereotypes describe the characteristics people think a group ought to have. Prescriptive stereotypes make implications, and these implications can be quite consequential (like with descriptive) E(cid:454). (cid:862)(cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) ought to (cid:271)e se(cid:454)(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:862)me(cid:374) should (cid:271)e (cid:272)ourageous(cid:863) Stereotypes can shape how we perceive others (for example, a study showed men perceiving a push from a black male to white male as aggressive whereas the reverse was not perceived as aggressive. Allport"s stud(cid:455) (cid:449)ith essa(cid:455)s fro(cid:373) stude(cid:374)ts o(cid:374) their o(cid:449)(cid:374) prejudices: 1/10 contained unrepentant prejudice, the rest had examined it, found it to be unreasonable and express a desire to overcome it. Prejudi(cid:272)e"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)po(cid:374)e(cid:374)ts: stereotypes, emotions, values, can be indirectly expressed (for example: attitudes towards social policies that affect other groups) (cid:862) (cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272) prejudi(cid:272)e(cid:863) or (cid:862)moder(cid:374) prejudi(cid:272)e(cid:863) is a ter(cid:373) for prejudi(cid:272)e that is hidde(cid:374) (cid:271)ehi(cid:374)d other, politically focussed views.
