PSYC 2040 Chapter : Psych 2040 Final
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The experiment where the woman had a scar painted on her face and told she was to go talk to people. Experimenter went bac: stigma consciousness: a persons expectation of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination. No one wants to go into a situation where they will be criticized. However, this can help because when you know you"re about to walk into this situation you can prepare yourself. Now this can also have a negative affect because you always expect this: ex. The straight man was open and very nice but gay man went back and said that the straight man was distant. This was because this is what he expected: vivid cases: given limited experience with a particular social group, we recall examples of it and generalize. You recall these particular social event: distinctive events: stereotypes assume a correlation between group membership and individuals" presumed characteristics, attentiveness to unusual occurrences can create:
