PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Chinese Fire Drill, Carl Beam, Circadian Rhythm
21 Nov 2013
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Art from opening of chapter 11; very expensive to put in textbook. Carl beam: first nations survivor, went to residential school. Barbarian: a person living outside, a person not living in a christian country. Chinese fire drill: a state of chaos, disorder. Dutch treat: when each person pays his or her own expense. Excuse my french: links the french language with negative language. Get your irish up: to become angry or outraged. Lippmann, a political journalist, described stereotypes as the pictures in our heads . Grouping people on the basis of gender, ethnicity & other attributes. Cannot work without categorization; part of human nature. Happens when items are presented so fast that you cannot read, identify or verbalize them. Study: look at computer screen & stereotypical words of black people are flashed on screen subliminally. When asked to interpret images, participants were more likely to make stereotypical assumptions about the images after subliminally presented with stereotypical words.
