PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stereotype Threat, Working Memory
25 Jan 2017
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Men and women are brought into the lab to do a task that has to do with numbers. Women should be threatened women are not supposed to be good at math. Low threat: men and women perform the same. High threat: women have a significant decrease in performance, men are not affected. Yerkes-dodson law: medium level of arousal leads to optimum level of performance. Optimal level of arousal for a hard test is low you don"t want to be stressed out when you are writing your tests. Drugs: low threat, high threat, low threat with arousing drugs, low threat, high threat, low threat with sedative drugs. Measure arousal on-line (measure arousal as participants complete tasks) Increased arousal that you are seeking to explain. Unconsciously, we seek out what is causing the arousal, which may lead to misattributing arousal to the wrong stimulus. Women who had been pre-selected because of high scores on math sat.
