PSYC12H3 Chapter 3: PSYC12-Chapter-3
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How we measure prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination, turn out to be important for our theoretical understanding of these constructs. Broad definition the negative attitude toward a particular social group and its members. Is seen to have three components; cognitive, affective and behavioural. Narrow definition a valanced affective or evaluative response (positive or negative) to a social category and its members: prejudice is usually accompanies with stereotypes. Prejudice may give rise to discriminatory behaviour. Stereotypes are category-based generalizations that link category members to typical attributes: ex. One might consider the stereotype that physicists are intelligent but socially awkward or that accountants are organized but boring. Each stereotype connects typical members of a social category with distinctive traits. Targets of discrimination may define some behaviours as having negative consequences while the perpetrators of those behaviours may not. Perpetrators may see their behaviours as justified by deservingness of the targets while the targets may disagree.
