PSYA02H3 Chapter 15: Chapter 15 notes
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The aversive state of dissonance motivates a person to reduce it. discrimination refers to behaviours, not to attitudes. means treating people differently because of their membership in a particular group www. notesolution. com. thus we can discriminate favourable or unfavourable according to the nature of our attitudes and beliefs about the relative of a particular group. Illusory correlation- an apparent relation between 2 distinctive elements that does not actually exist. I nterim summary prejudice: prejudice is a negative evaluation of a group of people defined by such characteristics as race/ethnicity/religion/gender/socio-economic status/sexual orientation www. notesolution. com. Important component of prejudice is the existence of a stereotype a false belief about the characteristics possessed by members of a particular group. I nterpersonal attraction and loving interpersonal attraction or peoples tendency to approach each other and evaluate each other positively humans like to be evaluated positively- to be held in high regard by other people.
