PSYC 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nylon, Lexical Decision Task, Automaticity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 473
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

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Is there evidence we think or act without awareness: dual process models, controlled processing. If you have a smaller number of copies people will let you in. If you have a higher number of copies, very few people will let you in. If you add an excuse, people would more likely let you in. If it"s a few pages, this number is very high. Story about a donald who does a lot of ambiguously hostile things: fazio et al. (1995, measure self-reported prejudice, rt (reaction time) task: s to quickly assess words as god or bad. E. g. likable, wonderful, disgusting, offensive: before each trial, second task : observing a face to learn it for later recognition, half the faces white, half black, does seeing an outgroup members face speed up or slow down responses. White faces sped up good responses to good words.