PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Rodney King, Thought Suppression, Eval
11 Mar 2013
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Prejudice (is it inevitable: categorization - categorize people into different groups, socially shared beliefs about groups, knowledge, acceptance, attitude toward the group. Involves both automatic and controlled processes: controlled: a function of controlled deliberate process; due to motivation (cognitive capacity, automatic: easy, effortless, automatic. Dual-process theories: mental processes underlying social judgment and behaviour can be controlled or automatic. Controlled: automatic, elicited unintentionally, require few cognitive resources, cannot be stopped voluntarily, occur outside of conscious awareness, controlled. Initiated intentionally: require considerable cognitive resources, can be stopped voluntarily, operate within conscious awareness. We all know stereotype, but the accuracy of acting on the prejudice is determined by whether one is lp (higher controlled) vs hp. Individual differences on the modern racism scale (indirect measure): Over the past few years, the government and news media have shown more respect to blacks than they deserve . Over the past few years, blacks have gotten more economically than they deserve .
