PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Long S, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Sephardi Jews

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark W Baldwin

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Came up with approach: na ve scientist motivated reasoning. We collect all the relevant information to the issue, generate hypothesis and test by collecting information: thinking is for doing . Person b = funny, pleasant, moody: could engage in unlimited hypothesis generation: The motive to have some answer on a topic (rather than uncertainty, confusion) Leads to seizing and freezing : rushing to judgement and not changing one"s mind ex: using first impressions & heuristics ex: paying attention to consistent information. * not enough time or attentional resources to think more carefully. * need to act (rather than think more) Study: kruglanski & freund: student teachers in israel, graded a story by an 8th grader. Sepharadi (n. african: ratings were higher for ashkenazi, the stereotype effect occurred only under time pressure (which was used to create. Iv: time pressure (10 mins vs. 1 hr) need for structure) Iv: subjects filled out need for closure scale.