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Unit 3 Stereotypes
Political Psychology Midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stereotypes created by (Lippmann) | pictures in our head which are the mental images around the things we never witnessed, things we are socialized to see |
| Self-perpetuating nature of Information Flow | Event occurs then media or a direct observer see what has happened, then they tell the individuals what has occured from their perceptive, but there is missing the individual from seeing the event themselves |
| 3 themes of Stereotyping | Cognitive Process (simply the world, not reality itself) Defensive mechanism (justification for social hierarchies in the system) Specific to social-cultural phenomena (not all cultures have same sterotypes |
| characteristics | categorize ppl on visible or knowable characteristics Give set of characteristics to all member of group attribute characteristics to any individual overgeneralized and widely accepted |
| Stereotype nature is | self perpetuating |
| Reconstructing the past and cognitive bolstering | remember things different so they will fit a stereotype - when new info is added -cognitive bolstering (resist evidence that counters their preferred position) |
| Betty K Studies | group of people where given the same information about a girl who could be hetero or homo sexual student -- homo remember that betty never had a steady bf student -- hetero remembered she dated men both side made up info not told to them |
| Constructing the future (Snyder) | selectively interpreting new info creating a situation that encourages subjects to behave stereotypically |
| Student Phone experiment (Snyder) | College men called women but were shown a polaroid of a hot and ugly women (actually talked to neither) hot - good convo ugly -bad women mirrored the behav. treat ppl with the stero that attractive ppl have better personalities they will act that way |
| stereotypes in politics | Democrats v Republicans Demo sterotype: human rights, DEI, big govt |
| Katz and Braly studies 1930s | Having students put adjectives next to groups Americans +anglo saxon group rank #1 Lowest-jews, chinese, turks, black show the defensive mechanism and how student view different racial groups |
| Correlational process | whether a given trait occurs more or less frequently with observation of a group |
| steps in Correlational process | Encoding Relevant info (accurately observing + recording, could be in bad way) (salience matters:remebers girl hit a boy b/c usually not violent) Retaining Info (usually salient) Retrieval of info when appropriate Integration of Info (proper interpt) |
| How stereotypes work (Fiske and Taylor) Distinctions | Traits become associated w/ different groups (women are soft and men are tough) Distinctions are based on observable differences (more distictive in groups means more likely to be streotyped) |
| How stereotypes work (Fiske and Taylor) Salience | Salience helps us see the distictions b/w groups, not within groups |
| stereotypes work (Fiske and Taylor) Distinctiveness in Social environment | Matters a lot ex. white guy in a room of black men, white guy is more likely to be stereotyped w/ salience --> why minority groups are more likely to be stereotyped |
| stereotypes work (Fiske and Taylor) aspects of the perceiver | Matters No Familiarity leads to the automatic gut reaction to stereotype because unknown situation Rural areas ppl to big city leads to lots of stereotypes b/c dont experience it first hand |
| salience | the quality of being particularly noticeable or important; prominence. |
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