PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Williams Syndrome, Mental Chronometry
22 Nov 2016
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Thinking fast (system 1), thinking slow (system 2: when we meet someone for the first time we use system 1 this is not the best way to think about someone new (this causes stereotyping) Stereotypes (cognition): beliefs about attributes that are thought to be characteristic of member of particular groups. Prejudice (affect): a negative attitude or affective response toward a certain group and its individual members. Discrimination (behaviour): negative behaviour towards members of a particular group based on their membership in that group. Your perception of the world is guided by prior experience, biases and heuristics. Conventions guide behaviours in the social world i. e. a first date and what you"re supposed to do and what not to do. A concept is represented by a prototype. People can be categorized as in-group or out-group members: in-group. Categorization allows us to make predictions about group members. Racial identify prime automatically influences weapon bias .
