PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Realistic Conflict Theory, Symbolic Racism, Implicit-Association Test
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The cognitive perspective traces cognitive processes of classifying. Stereotypes: thinking about a person as only a member of a group, projecting group characterists onto member. Prejudice: prejudging others because they belong to a specific category. Discrimination: unfair treatment of members of a particular group based on their membership in that group, can exist w. o prejudice. We might not be racist on surface but can have unconscious stuff. Rejecting of expicit racisim but habouring unduring suspision or discomfort. If the situation offers no justification or disguise for discriminatory action, their responses will conform to their egalitarian values. If a suitable rationalization is readily available, the modern racist"s prejudices will emerge. Many of our isms are ambivalent, containing both negative and positive features. Someone might believe, for example, that asians are colder and more rigid than whites. And at the same time believe they are more intellectually gifted. In their work on ambivalent sexism, peter glick and susan fiske have interviewed.
