PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Implicit-Association Test, Realistic Conflict Theory, Stereotype Threat
22 Jan 2016
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The economic perspective: identifies the roots of how much intergroup hostility in competing interests that can set groups apart from one another. The motivational perspective: emphasizes the psychological needs that lead to intergroup conflict. The cognitive perspective: traces the origin of stereotyping to the same cognitive processes that enable ppl to categorize. ** these perspectives are only perspectives, it is not white and black, s. t they can be mixed and one can make another happen These perspectives exist only to classify stereotyping, discrimination, etc. Stereotype: the belief that certain attributes are characteristics of members of a particular group. (categorizing s. o based on what you think of the group- generalizations) Prejudice: a negative attitude or affective response toward a group and its individual members. (prejudging others bc they belong to specific category) Discrimination: unfair treatment of individuals based on their membership in a particular group.
