Perception, Prejudice Flashcards
Covariation model
Is someone’s behavior Dispositional vs situational
- consensus (situation)
- consistency (dispositional)
- distinctiveness (situation)
Fundamental attribution error
Actor observer bias
Judge other people dispositional
Judge ourselves situationally
Self serving bias
Success– my doing, I’m a G
Failure– society did this shit to me
Prejudice
Cognition (stereotype)
Affective (
Behavior (discrimination)
Frustration aggression hypothesis
Frustration—>aggressive –>
—> channel aggression to someone else(minorities) SCAPEGOATING
Hypothesis of relative deprivation
The difference between our EXPECTED living standard and our ACTUAL living standard
Leads to frustration, discrimination, prejudice
Social stigma
Stigma:
Stereotypes (cognitive)
Prejudice (affect)
Discrimination (behavior)
Primacy bias
Recency Bias
First impressions
You’re only as good as your last game
Best remember these things
Halo effect
If overall perception of someone is good then we assume they’re great at everything
Devil effect
Opposite of halo effect.
That guy seems ugly. He must be bad at everything
Just world hypothesis
Explain occurrences.
Good people get rewarded, bad people get punished
Ethnocentrism
Assess a culture from your own cultural perspective.
You eat insects? Gross
OUR CULTURE IS SUPERIOR
Cultural relativism
Opposite of ethnocentrism.
DIFFERENT CULTURES WHO ARE VALID BUT EQUAL
view a culture from their perspective
“Oh I can see why you’d like eating insects”
In group/ out group
In group: us
Outgroup: them
Ingroup favoritism: support in group, neutral to outgroup
Ingroup DEROGATION: support in group, discriminate outgroup
Group polarization
Individual opinions become amplified as a single group opinion
