PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: In-Group Favoritism, Stereotype Threat, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Cognitive psychologists found out that the human brain seems to almost automatically categorize similar objects in the enviro. Been shown to begin as early as 6 months. >stereotyping was no longer regarded as the product of lazy thinking by the uneducated. It was now regarded as a natural consequence of cognition. When we encounter a person, we tend to automatically assess that person on the basis of our perception of that person"s features. >humans have a limited-capacity cognitive system, cant process all available info in our social enviro. Categorize people, objects, ideas, etc. based on shared features. >classify individ along some broad categories like gender, race and age. Immediate/obvious features of them, and these categories yield lots of info about useful distinctions in social behave among those diff groups. >the way the person categorizes a picture of an individ depends on the perceiver"s motives, cognitions and affect.
