PSY322H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Chopsticks, Cognitive Dissonance, Normative Social Influence
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A need to understand the negative influence such thinking has on thoughts, feelings, and behaviour. How they relate to the targets of their prejudice. Such negative attitudes form the basis for subsequent negative intergroup behaviour. Brigham (1971): a generalization about a group concerning a trait attribution, which is considered to be unjustified by an observer . But any generalization about a group whether an observer believes it is justified or not. Synonymous with the question of the accuracy of a stereotype controversial. Hamilton & trolier (1986): a cognitive structure that contains the perceiver"s knowledge, beliefs, and expectations about a human group . Sounds more like the definition of a schema (a cognitive structure that represents knowledge about a concept or type of stimulus including its attributes and the relations among those attributes) Ashmore & del boca (1981): a set of beliefs about the personal attributes of a group of people .
