PSYC 361 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Social Psychology, Collectivism, Random Assignment
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Why do we stereotype: victims of hate crimes experience, stereotyping, cognitive components, belief about the group, prejudice, discrimination, adaptive categorization, adaptive categorization is automatic, minimal group paradigm: arbitrary distinctions promote favoritism. In groups versus out groups: over estimators" and under estimators, klee and kandinsky, random assignment by lottery ticket. Stereotype threat: occurs when an individua feels as risk for confirming a negative stereotype about his or her group, the anxiety can lead to distraction and confirm the stereotype. History of social psychology: roughly 150 years old, early founders: sigmoid freud and wilhelm wundt, prior to wwii european labs focused on personality, abnormality, senses, and memory, us labs focuse on leaning with non human animals. Kurt lewin social psychology"s pioneer: wwi soldier, social perception, fled to the u. s. before wwii, how people"s behavior changes based on group environment. Lewinian equation - behavior is a function of both personality and environment. Different perspectives: women and people of color join psychology.
