PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Startle Response, Bacon, Social Dominance Orientation
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Psyc12h3 lecture 5: measuring modern prejudice & prejudiced personality. Us or them. given bad and good words to judge if us or them, i. e. : bad: bomb, good: friend . Police mistook a wallet for a gun (this happens a lot) Our eyes are affected by the expectations (schemas) we hold: i. e. : if we expect someone to be violent, then we see them as violent. We generalize from group to an individual member. Method: shooting videogame, black vs. white target, and holding gun or not. Results: fewer errors for white targets than black targets if unarmed i. e. : it"s more likely for black people to get shot when they don"t have a gun, fewer errors for black targets than white targets if armed. : it"s more likely to be shot if you are black if you have a gun.
