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11 Cards in this Set
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Process vs. Content, and what do we look for?
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Process is how stereotyping comes about as a result of cognitive processes
Content is what stereotyping is and how it's done with different groups |
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Intrapsychic Motivations
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Freudian
Displacement: A need for high self esteem causes us to put others down, which in turn brings up our own self esteem |
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Sociocultural
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The different roles we see people taking in society affects how we view other groups and our own.
Those who are benefitted vs. not benefitted in the media. |
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Cognitive
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Our natural cognitive processes effect how we divide people into groups, separate from social or cultural influence.
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Evolutionary
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A combination of sociocultural and cognitive influences, looks at how different needs for survival created social and cognitive aspects of human interaction
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Affect - Prejudice
Behavior - Discrimination Cognition - Stereotyping Stereotyping and prejudice are not necessarily related |
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Stereotyping and Prejudice are...
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Ubiquitous (they effect us all)
Two way street (minority and majority groups engage in them) Any group can be a target of them |
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Psychodynamic Approach/Intrapsychic (ego protection and enhancement)
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Ego Protection and Enhancement motive: When the ego is weak we produce a negative reaction to others to make the self feel better.
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Sick Society (sociocultural approach) Informational/Motivational components
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Informational components: Learns culture and it's values, which results in values that accept or do not accept certain behaviors
Motivational components: Conformity/ Reinforcement, people want to be accepted so they follow the norm |
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Stereotypes function in cognitive strategies
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A stereotype schema is used to "fill in the blanks" about things in order to categorize and make sense of the world
Stereotype: A cognitive schema that contains a person's knowledge, beliefs, and expectancies about a human group. |
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Must stereotype be consensually held to exist?
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No.
We have personal stereotypes "I believe all asians have an extra sense" I still treat asians differently even though it's not on a mass scale, the stereotype still exists in my own mind. But if they are held consensually it can effect people (stereotype threat) |