PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Ethnocentrism, Grammatical Gender, Stereotype Threat
12 Sep 2016
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Stereotype: a belief that associates a whole group of people with a certain trait. Prejudice: hostile or negative feelings about people based on their membership in a certain group. Discrimination: behaviour directed against people solely because of their membership in a particular group. Social learning, more willing to express some prejudice but not others, believing other people agree with our stereotypes increases strength. Social categorization: the practice of classifying people into in-groups or outgroups based on attributes that the person has in common with the in-group or outgroup. Outgroup homogeneity effect: people"s tendency to underestimate the variability of outgroup members compared to the variability of in-group members. This tendency is learned, adopted koreans + white faces. Cross-ethnic identification bias: the tendency to see outgroup members as looking very similar to one another and showing greater accuracy for recognizing in-group members than outgroup members. People engage in deeper processing when seeing person from same ethnicity than different.
