PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Social Dominance Orientation, The Authoritarian Personality, In-Group Favoritism
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Prejudice: a negative prejudgment of a group and its individual members. Prejudice is an attitude, which is the combination of affect (feeling), behaviour tendency (inclination to act) and cognition (beliefs) Stereotype: a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. Stereotypes can be overgeneralized, inaccurate and resistant to new information. To stereotype is to generalize, to simplify the world. Stereotypes may be positive or negative, accurate or inaccurate. Discrimination: unjustifiable negative behaviour toward a group or its members. Discrimination usually has its source in prejudicial attitudes. Racism: (1) an individual"s prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviour toward people of a given race, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given race. Sexism: (1) an individual"s prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviour toward people of a given sex, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given sex.
