PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Illusory Correlation, White Noise, Dependent And Independent Variables

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Understand how the brain works and how normal processes and categorization of the brain eventually how it leads to prejudice and stereotypes. If two variables seem to change at the same time, we have a tendency to think that those factors are related: e. g. : if two events are rare, they"re meaningful to know that they co-occur together. If someone rarely encounters black people and then they"re mugged by a black person, there will be more of a chance to develop a prejudice: two rare events occur prejudice occurs more often, e. g. It"s easier to suggest that stereotypes are associated with minority group because they"re rare. On the other hand, when distinctive, undesirable behaviors were represented in the sentences, the participants overestimated how much the minority group exhibited the behaviors: sometimes correlations are meaningful and the stereotypes are true, e. g. Taking a female chinese stereotypes; there are two stereotypes that she can be associated it (female stereotypes and.

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