PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Implicit-Association Test, Falsifiability, Nomothetic
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Causes us to act in a prejudicial way. While explicit prejudice are feelings we"re aware of, we"re unaware of implicit prejudice. The implicit association test and unconscious racism, sexism and other prejudices. We can reduce and eliminate it in some ways. Study and encouraging people to work towards common goals. How if you got different teams, who are made to be competitive with one another. If you make them do an activity to work together, they start to do so. Personality - people"s typical way of thinking, feeling, and behaving - these traits account in part for consistencies in our behaviour across time and situations. Nomothetic vs. idiographic approaches to studying personality. Ideographic focuses on the individual"s own personality characteristics and their unique life history combine to create personality. Nomothetic are general laws that govern the behaviour of all humans; in a top-down approach. People who see that their house is on fire would run out of the house.