Uncg psych 462 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What Is Discrimination? - Answer-Behaving differently toward people based on their membership in a social group - Usually unfair or demeaning Forms of Discrimination (4) - Answer-1) Blatant discrimination 2) Subtle discrimination 3) Microaggressions 4) Covert discrimination Blatant discrimination - Answer-unequal and harmful treatment that is typically intentional, visible, and easily documented 2009- Shephard-Byrd study (hate crime bill) - Answer-hate crime bill was passed after two ma...

STUDY: Ramsey 1994- (mental patients) - ️️College participants recorded attitudes toward mental patients. The patients were either defined as "highly depressed," "one who hallucinates," "one who is manic," or "one who is paranoid." Participants then read about a student at their school. If the story matched their stereotypes, there was a strong correlation between prejudice and reported discrimination which was based on a list of things they would be willing to ...

2009- Shephard-Byrd study (hate crime bill) - hate crime bill was passed after two males were brutally attacked and killed after hate crimes due to sexual orientation and race Attitude-Behavior Correspondence - If measures of prejudice and discrimination are (un) controllable, there is a high correspondence between them - high explicit prejudice= controllable verbal behaviors - Implicit prejudice= nonverbal behaviors STUDY: White college students were tested for implicit and explicit prej...

What Is Discrimination? Behaving differently toward people based on their membership in a social group - Usually unfair or demeaning Forms of Discrimination (4) 1) Blatant discrimination 2) Subtle discrimination 3) Microaggressions 4) Covert discrimination Blatant discrimination unequal and harmful treatment that is typically intentional, visible, and easily documented 2009- Shephard-Byrd study (hate crime bill) hate crime bill was passed after two males were brutally attacked and k...

What Is Discrimination? Behaving differently toward people based on their membership in a social group - Usually unfair or demeaning Forms of Discrimination (4) 1) Blatant discrimination 2) Subtle discrimination 3) Microaggressions 4) Covert discrimination Blatant discrimination unequal and harmful treatment that is typically intentional, visible, and easily documented 2009- Shephard-Byrd study (hate crime bill) hate crime bill was passed after two males were brutally attacked and kil...