PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Observational Error, Contact Hypothesis, 3 Women
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Contact hypothesis - being exposed to more ethnicities, races, etc, can help with how we treat others. : people that grow up in predominately white school will have a scattered view on black people as they"ve only come into contact with a few, as well as the media. Systematic error errors in the experiment associated with a flaw in the design of the experiment. Schema a pattern of thought that organizes categories of information. In-group group of people that share characteristics with you, and that you identify with. Minimal groups categorized based on non-meaningful groups, i. e. : red and blue. There is a correlation between wealth, gender and race in canada: we stereotype that white males have most wealth. However, the car salesman would offer the highest price toward black males, due to other stereotypes. There are many different variables that you have to test on: 4 twin testers : confederates that vary in these 4 different aspects.
