PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Authoritarian Personality, Desegregation, Natural Environment
19 Mar 2017
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Chapter 7: prejudice: feelings of helplessness, powerlessness and anger are the harvest of being the constant target of prejudice, although the attidues of the general population have improved, prejudice still occurs in less obvious forms. What is prejudice: prejudice: a hostile or negative attitude toward a distinguishable group on the basis of generalizations derived from faulty or incomplete information. It"s hard to see our o(cid:449)(cid:374) prejudi(cid:272)es confimed by experiments) The multiple forms of prejudice: can be overt and hostile, but it can also be barely perceptible, sometimes we may not even be aware of the bias we have towards others (as in the. Insidious for(cid:373) of prejudi(cid:272)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it does(cid:374)"t see(cid:373) like a (cid:862)prejudi(cid:272)e(cid:863) to (cid:373)e(cid:374: both serve to justify relegating women to traditional roles in society. I. e. the white college marker and black writer experiment (p. 308) In an ambiguous situation, people tend to make attributions consistent with their prejudices.
