PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Job Performance, Afrocentrism, Illusory Correlation
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23/01/2014: confirmation biases, by having ideas in our mind, we can create the behaviour we expect to see in other people, self-fulfilling prophecy. Help them do what they want to do. Hannah stevenson, a 16- year- old girl stabbed classmate to do with screwdriver. Unjust that exist in the just system. Would a racist have voted for obama: no (60+ %, yes (50+ %) Studies have shown that when poor children estimate the size of coins they tend to see the coins as physically larger than the size estimated by rich children. Illusory correlation: self-fulfilling prophecy (behavioural confirmation, outgroup homogeneity effect, the operating process. In word, zanna, & cooper"s study of the effects of race on interviewer and applicant behaviour, when white applicants were treated like black applicants they performed worse. This is an example of: confirmation bias. Illusory correlation: self-fulfilling prophecy, outgroup homogeneity effect, the operating process. Subtyping (different category even though they"re the same)