Summary Stereotypes, Prejudice, Discrimination - Social psychology (summaries for exams)

Running head: STEREOTYPES, PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION – SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 1




STEREOTYPES, PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION
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Stereotypes, Prejudice, Discrimination



Stereotypes:

-Beliefs about attributes that are thought to be characteristic of members of particular
groups (lecture)→ cognitive component

-Simplified representation of social groups (Myers p.531)→ simplify the world→
helps to process information quicker, focus on important things

-Exaggerate differences

-Generalization about a group of people

-Can be positive, negative (Myers p.532)

-Can be accurate (desirable) (Myers p.532)→ ‘sensitivity to diversity’, ‘cultural
awareness in a multicultural world’

-Can be inaccurate (Myers p.532)

-Can be unconscious (Myers p.541)→ bases people’s behavior

-Resistant to new information (Myers p.543)




Prejudice:

-A negative attitude, response or evaluation toward or about a certain group and its
individual members (lecture p.31)→ affective component of stereotypes

-Can be positive or negative attitudes (Greenwald, Pettigrew p. 670)-Preconceived
negative judgment of a group and its members→ benefits the self or own group

-Product which we learn from our environment