PSY230H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Criterion Validity, Convergent Validity, Hierarchical Database Model
Document Summary
You respond to stimuli but not aware of it. We can override our processes but it causes effort. Seen a picture and were asked to tell a story. Look at the themes that they talk about and gives us an idea of what their unconscious is thinking about. Showed that the test could reveal prejudice and stereotypes eg. about race. People are prejudice but they don"t want to be, is one way that shows how prejudice and opinions are not completely in our control. Use stimuli that belong to two separate categories. Some people say it is reliable because they say that it is reliable to personal beliefs. These attitudes are not something that the people are completely unaware of. It is a good measure of attiturdes but maybe not of unconscious personality. Low correlation between explicit self-esteem and self-esteem lat.
