CSP 161 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Out-Group Homogeneity, Stereotype Threat, In-Group Favoritism

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 161
• Professor: Andrew Elliot

Document Summary

Stereotype a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people and are generally overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information. Prejudice a perceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members. Discrimination unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its individual members. Social categorization tendency to classify people into groups, not a bad thing. Ingroup/outgroup categorization tendency to classify people as ingroup or outgroup members. Outgroup homogeneity bias the tendency to perceive outgroup members as being (cid:373)ore si(cid:373)ilar to ea(cid:272)h other tha(cid:374) are (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers of o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s i(cid:374)group. Ingroup-outgroup bias the tendency to fa(cid:448)or o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s o(cid:449)(cid:374) group a(cid:374)d have more negative attitudes towards outgroup members than towards ingroup members. Minimal group procedure researcher assigned group membership based on trivial criteria and then asked the participants to rate other people. Participants rated ingroup members more favorably than outgroup members.