PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Verbal Behavior, Stereotype Threat, Problem Solving

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Tara Mac Donald

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Being a member of a stigmatized group: People in stereotypes groups ca experience difficulty interpreting feedback from others (cid:894)i. e. u(cid:374)(cid:272)ertai(cid:374)ty (cid:449)hether the feed(cid:271)a(cid:272)k refle(cid:272)ts their (cid:449)o(cid:374) perfor(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e or other" (cid:271)iases(cid:895) Positive feedback: did i do well or does the person giving feedback being patronizing/compensating for the biases. Participants (38 black, 45 white) were told that they were paired with another participant for the study. Black participants told their partner was white, white participants told partner was white. Participants told partner could see them or not. Completed self-description form, received positive or negative feedback from partner, self-esteem reassessed. Whe(cid:374) part(cid:374)er gi(cid:448)es positi(cid:448)e feed(cid:271)a(cid:272)k (cid:271)ut part(cid:374)er (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t see the(cid:373), their self-esteem raises: perso(cid:374) (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t see ra(cid:272)e must be because of me. When partner gives negative feedback if seen: not affecting them at all, makes an external attribution, must just be saying that because they are racist.