PSYC 365 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Moral Development, Relational Aggression, Deindividuation

• School: Xavier University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 365
• Professor: Jebens

Document Summary

Claude steele measured verbal intelligence in black and white students. Comprehension goal filling in a lot of assumed information when meeting a new person. Self-enhancement purposes stereotypes tend to be negative; make ourselves feel better by denigrating another group. Gender role stereotypes: a set of shared cultural beliefs about males" and females" behavior, personality traits, and other attributes. Implicit stereotypes = learned, automatic associations between social categories and other attributes. Gender differences can be biologically or environmentally caused. Stereotype threat = being at risk of personally confirming a negative stereotype about one"s group. Gender differences vs. individual differences despite average gender differences in a trait, there are always large individual differences (m m, f f) Meta-analysis = statistical technique that allows a researcher to combine the results of many research studies. Replication = repeating a studying independently by other scientists and the same results are obtained. Aggression = behavior intended to harm another person.