PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Stereotype Threat, Dispositional Attribution, Structural Dynamics
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Social identities and group processes: emphasized normal psychological and social processes; foster and maintain prejudice and stereotype. Biases are contributed by: nonconscious processes, fundamental processes, and specific emotions. Prejudice attitude reflecting overall evaluation of a group. Stereotype association, attribution of specific characteristics to a group. Discrimination biased behavior toward, and treatment of a group or its member. Prejudice and stereotype both can be separate into implicit & explicit. Discrimination from individual lead to institutional policies (disparities between groups) Individual-level attitude (whether subjectively positive or negative) toward groups & their members that creates or maintains hierarchical status relations between groups. Cognitive (believe), affective (dislike), and conative (behavioral predisposition to behave negatively) Antipathy expressed or felt directed to individual or as a whole. Intrapsychic process attitude held by an individual. Sociological perspective: group-based, social and structural dynamics in intergroup relations especially race relation, group-level, only looks @ group relations in economic and class-based term, excludes individual influence.
