PSYCH355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stroop Effect, Biopsychosocial Model
24 Feb 2016
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Research finds individuals (white and minorities) leave interracial interactions feeling cognitively and emotionally drained. Examines mediator role of self regulation and moderator role of prejudice concerns. Examine exposure to stressful stimuli on cognitive functioning. Tasks requiring cognitive/executive control ie. ignoring distracting information, inhibiting automatic reactions. If interracial interactions are stressful, performance should be impaired. White and black p"s do stroop color naming task after a brief interview-like interaction with a black or white experimenter. Before interaction, p"s completed a measure of implicit racial bias. White p"s preformed worse on stroop task after contact with black experimenter than with white experimenter. Greater implicit racial bias in whites poorer stroop task performance after interracial interactions. More negative black p"s attitude towards whites poorer performance after interracial interaction. Interracial contact impairs performance on stroop task that require executive control since they engaged in self control during interracial interaction, which decreases their executive attentional capacity.
