2. Social Relations: Prejudice Unjustifiable and often negative attitude toward a group and its members usually involves stereotyped beliefs, and a predisposition to discriminatory action Prejudices are schemas that effect how we notice and interpret events.

3. Brown v. Board of Education Doll Test – summarize findings from article provided

4. In-group bias In-group bias: the belief that our group is good and right, excluding other groups groups, self-serving bias.

5. Discrimination may lead to harming a racial or ethnic group which leads to behaviors than reinforce the stereotype creating a self-fulfilling prophesy. Scapegoating is when you use a racial or ethnic group as a target to blame when things go wrong.

6. Cognitive roots of prejudice: Prejudices often have a germ of truth which is built into schemas our tendency for confirmation bias and belief perseverance sustains the belief. We then form illusory correlations in our schemas that further reinforce our belief system. Also our in-group bias leads us to believe we are correct and others wrong.

7. People also have a tendency to blame the victim of discrimination because we assume a just world and they wouldn’t be discriminated against if it weren’t just: Just World Phenomenon.

8. Aggression: Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy. Genetic: inherited thresholds in the amygdala. Neural: Head injuries; testosterone levels

9. Aggression: Psychological roots. Aversive situations lead to aggression; heat, crowded rooms, stress. Learned- operantly, classically, socially Frustration-Aggression Principle: frustration – the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal – creates anger, which can generate aggression Correlation with property rights, gun loving and physical punishments, fatherless homes

11. Aggression and Television. Correlation or causation? Immediately after viewing violence, children demonstrate more aggression, particularly if the hero is violent. Provides social scripts. Do aggressive kids, watch aggressive shows or do the shows cause the aggression.

12. Violence and culture probably desensitize people to violence as a fact of life.