PSYCO241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Sexual Objectification, Hurricane Katrina, Illusory Correlation
1 Nov 2016
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Prejudice: negative attitude towards an individual solely on the basis of that person"s presumed membership to a particular group (women, lesbian, fat, old, american, disabled) People are prejudiced, but feel that their prejudice is justified, but social psychollgists don"t see it this way because. Prejudice involved judging a person negatively independent of their actions or attributes. Any large category of people has tremendous variability. There may be a group mean (what the average group member is like) but there is always a normal distribution. Prejudice leads to actions of violence against innocent people. People who hold prejudices usually justify them with stereotypes (overgeneralized beliefs about a member of a particular group) Not all stereotypes are negative, but stereotypes of outgroups tend to be. Act as justifications of prejudices and implicit assumptions that guide how we think about groups and their members. When people hold prejudices/stereotypes it can lead to conscious/unconscious discrimination. Negative behavior towards members of those groups.
