Stereotypes

Question 1

Stereotypes

Answer 1

• social perceptionsof an individual in terms of group memebership or physical attributes. They are generalizations that are made about a group and then attributed to membrs f that group

Question 2

illusory correlation

Answer 2

• proposed by Hamilton and Gifford
  -cognitive mechanism that leads a person to perceive a relationship between two event when in fact this relationship does not exist or it is based on seterotypical assumptions which lack tangible ebvidence
• common for two people to see two variables as related when they are not
• group stereotypes can become viewed as perceived corrlations between the group and a trait or behaviour but they are illusory beause they are falsely being understood as actual correlations
• two even co-occur, the frequencey of this co-occurnrence is exaggerated, whcih gu es rise to a negative stereotype about the minority group

Question 3

confirmation bias

Answer 3

• people tend to seed out or remeber information that supports this relationship
• person might develop a streotype that a particular ethnic group is aggressive if they only notice negative news reports or isolated incidents
• people tend to overlook information that contradicts what they already belive or even ignire posuve interactions with members of that group.