PSYC 354 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The New Jim Crow, Social Learning Theory, Aversive Racism

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 354
• Professor: Nazish Salahuddin

Document Summary

Predicting and explaining human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, while including the lens of culture justice and equity. Right of same sex couples to adopt children. Elimination of life sentences for juvenile offenders. Dr. melba vasquez, former apa president called on psychologists to address issues of equality, justice, and minimizing human suffering (social justice) Identify racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, and other types of injustice. Model of interpersonal communication as it relates to cross-cultural communication. Noise can be biases, values, prior experiences, and stereotypes. Noise leads to errors in decoding/unconscious or conscious loaded encoding. This leads to conflict, hard feelings, disharmony, and distance. Social identities-what they are what they are not. Real impact on lived experience, access to resources, many domains. Related to personal identities, but not the same. Most research conducted, reported, and presented in english. Mostly college students, white, middle class, hetero, psych students. Over/misdiagnosis or women and people of color. Pathologization of sexual orientation and gender identification.