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Fiske et al.'s sterotype content model (2002) showed that...

competence and warmth respectively followed percieved staus and competition

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Social categorisation is...

The act/process of assigning people to groups based on social categories e.g sex, age, race

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We use social categorisation to...

understand and so we categorise along meaningful social dimensions

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Rosch (1978) showed that categories have ___ boundaries and revolve around a ____.

fuzzy, central prototype

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What is an arguement that suppports the idea that social categorisation is automatic?

Humans are cognitive misers, categorisation simplifies a complex world, because we categorise so much on the basis of sailent social categories categorisation should be automatic

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What is the arguement against social categorisation being automatic?

Mere exposure to a person isn't enough to start categorisation; if social categorisation simplifies our world we shouldn't do it when it's not necessary

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Quinn & Macrea (2005) found that...

people only categorised faces by gender when they were instructed too

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What does the tripartite model of preucide consist of?

Stereotypes (cognitive); discrimination (behavioural); emotions (affective)

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Two studies support the idea that stereotypes change as society does, on is Fiske et al.'s (2002) stereotype content model, what is the other?

The princeton triliogy studies

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What is stereotype activation?

The degree to which a stereotype is accessible in the mind

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Social Psych - Sterotypes and social categorisation