PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5 and 11: Gordon Allport, Stereotype Threat, Contact Hypothesis
1 Dec 2016
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Psyc 2310 chapters 5 and 11: stereotype i. e. italians are emotional, librarians are boring, black people are criminals, women make sandwiches in kitchen, asians are good in math, black people are good at basketball. Well-known stereotypes: barbarian a person living outside; a person not living in a christian country. A person who gives a gift and then takes it back: stereotypes can be both positive and negative, most stereotypes are objectionable because: Stereotypes are generalizing to every man in the group. Stereotyping that tall people are good at basketball. Stereotype heads : lippmann 1922, a political journalist described stereotype as the pictures in our, based on stereotype, you judge members of that group accordingly, word originates from the printing industry. How do stereotypes form: social categorization. Building block of the way we understand people. Start to categorize people and then engage in some sort of generalization towards members of the group. Group people based on education, age, ethnicity, gender, etc.
