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We Group people together to simplify society so we understand it. skin color; m/f, social class, age
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| we treat ingroup/outgroup members different. |
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we segregate to nautural characteristics.
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| groups to which we belong we typically like, and other not. |
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| overestimate-underestimate dots on screen. 2 groups; rewarded own group. |
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unjustified. negative behavior. *not necessarily dislike -temple -credit scores -handicaps |
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A- prejudice b- discrimination c- stereotype |
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| a preconcieved negative opinion towards others |
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| belief about a list of attributes towards a group of people. |
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| - THE ASSUMPTION THAT DIFFERENCES ARE IN-BORN |
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| Believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups. |
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example: outgroup is rigid vs. Principle. outgroup is wishy-washy vs. willing to change mind. |
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groups do worse when aknowledge the stereotype. (reminded of the expectation) blacks did better at golf if reminded athletic. worse if reminded intellect |
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| those that look alike are alike |
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we ignore instances that run negative against our stereotypes. Example: all pacific islanders are gang-bangers. |
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| illusory correlations subtypes/ subcategories |
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| Adjective checklist assessment |
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list of black people categorization. majority in 1933 were negative. in 1953 gilbert found 1/2 as many endorsed negative. |
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redone adjective checklist assessment. -what you think others think. -what you think.
-stereotype has not faded away, it has just changed. -its just as negative, just different. |
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| high-prejudice people endorse stereotypes. |
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the dislike of others
meat-packing plants. 50% hispanic, now hatred toward samolis. |
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| realistic group conflict theory |
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prejudice comes from competition for scarce resources
Example: oklahoma camp. 2 groups came to hate eachother as competition increases for treats over atheletic events. |
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| engage in contact hypothesis |
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| interpersonal contact reduces prejudice. |
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| structure to break barriers: |
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1- equal status 2- require personal interactions 3- cooperative activities 4- supportive social norms |
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| A shared goal that necessitates cooperative effort; a goal that overrides people's differences from one another. |
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harness superordinate goals to reduce prejudices. only as strong as your weakest member. use 4 structures to build group.
self-esteem improved. poorer students improved. good students didn't suffer. circles included races. |
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| designed to hurt relationships of others |
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| extreme agression to hurt |
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a means to an end.
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| Instinct driven aggression |
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Freud "death wish"- people have unconscious desire to kill themselves. deflected outwards.
Conrad Lorenz: adaptive. If aggresive, you can gain resources. |
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| evolution-latent construct (regarding aggression) |
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| aggression would emerge as necessary. |
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| Testosterone and cortisone |
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| levels predict aggressions |
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| areas of brain relate to aggression |
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not associated w/aggression.
not as smart. |
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| cultural influences on aggression |
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| more aggressive in the south. "culture of honor". swift justice. |
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| Culture of Honor. southern vs. Northern men. |
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provoked in a narrow hallway. asked to end a story. saliva taken.
75% of insulted southerners ended with violence. cortizone levels 70% in southerners. testotorone was 12% in insulted southerners. 4% in controlled.
Chicken control. southerns would bail at 10 ft. 36 in if insulted. |
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| more aggressive when believed god authorized + it came from the bible. |
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| interpersonal relationships |
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| need to belong. need to pair off. |
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| similarity vs. opposites. |
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| factors that lead to interpersonal attraction |
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| proximity, functional distance, mere exposure |
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| people liked songs that they had heard tidbits of before unknown to them. |
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| hostility-. curiosity-. friendship |
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marry people that look like us. dating not so much. personality yes. |
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| average face is the most attractive. |
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| phyiscal attractiveness longetivity |
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| doesn't necessary sustain. |
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triangle has to balance itself out to be positive when 3 sides are times together. + + +=+ - - +=+ We yearn for harmony |
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| stimulus (attraction)-> value (attachment... connect) -> Role (commitment... husband/wife) |
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likeing----------------intimacy *more rewards, -> better relationship. |
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----- like
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*you can like without loving and vice versa. |
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| selfish. When its fun, I'm in. Playing the field. |
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| friendship love. companionship. friendly. trust |
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| insecure. force other into commitment. fear. |
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| shopping list check-off. suitable. practical. |
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| 3 ingredients in a relationship |
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| 1- passion, 2- intimacy, 3- commitment. |
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| get something by helping. |
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| preserve your genes. help your family. |
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| help members of your group first. |
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| altruistic goals. - only want to help |
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| a means to an end. we do it, but we do it for something else. |
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| things happen, but we didn't mean them to. |
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| empathy-altruism hypothesis |
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empathy leads to altruistic action.
preception of need. adopt others perspective? emotional response (empathic concern vs. personal distress.) motive? (altruism vs. egoism) response? help... not help. or help. |
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| easy escape: you can just watch. |
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| both groups (altruistic and egoism helped) |
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| easy out: go to the other room and eat cookies and drink pepsi |
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altruism helped egoism didn't. |
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| sometimes motives change. loose yourself in the work. |
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1- notice 2- interpret situation 3- take responsibility 4- decide how to help 5- help |
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| A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling, or how they are responding. (nobody else is reacting) |
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| diffusion of responsibility |
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| other people are probably helping. |
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| confusion of responsibility |
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| why is there so much violence on tv |
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stories are told by the media today men:women 3:1 cast: while males in prime of life. projects a sense of male power. produced for a global market. humor is culture bound. |
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entertaining. sense of good times + fun. 20-30 per hour on children's tv 2 murders nightly primetime 6-8 per hour |
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greater dosage required for effect remake: 32- 81 corpses. ninja turtles- rat - global marketing |
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| violence as a social relationship |
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women are 50% more likely to be victims than aggressors. minority women twice as likely. it becomes internalized. |
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| violence is exploitable. the world becomes more dangerous and threatening. we become more dependent |
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| if you're born into a lower level (media-centered world), you live in a meaner world. |
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| citizenship in the cultural environment |
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government is the media. "portraying the world realistically" -teachers -rule makers. - movement to turn things around. |
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| what can parents and teachers do about media violence? |
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tv is a babysitter. make it appropriate. not a form of reward and punishment. can be turned on and off. discriminate what is worth watching. schools should teach how to handle it. |
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| social dominance orientation |
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| a motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups. |
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| the tendency to favor one's own group. |
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| outgroup homogeneity effect |
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| perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. thus "they are alike, we are divers." |
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| the tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race. |
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| explaining away outgroup members' positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions. (while excusing such behavior by one's own gorup) |
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| the tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get. |
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| accommodating individuals who deveiate from one's stereotype by thinking of them as "exceptions to the rule" |
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| accommodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group. |
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eros, ludus, storge pragma, agape, mania |
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| frustration-aggression theory |
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| the theory that frustration triggers a readiness to aggress. |
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| aggression driven by anger and performed as an end in itself. |
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| aggression that is a means to some other end. |
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| the redirection of aggression to a target other than the source of the frustration. Generally, the new target is a safer or more socially acceptable target. |
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| the perception that one is less well off than others with whom one compares oneself. |
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| the theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded and punished. bandura's bobo doll. |
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| heat increases aggression. |
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| to connect with others in enduring, close relationships. |
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we like what we associate with ourselves. like letters of your name. |
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| over justification effect |
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| rewarding someone for doing something they would've done otherwise might lead them to not do it in the future. |
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