PSYC13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Implicit-Association Test, In-Group Favoritism, Social Cognition
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This article reviews some of the literature on the development of intergroup cognition (including explicit and implicit biases). One of the major themes of the article is that developmental time course of implicit attitude formation can inform theories about how those attitudes form. You should be able to describe some of the research examining this question. Preferences for familiar or attractive faces start to show during infancy. Research: intermodal matching sho(cid:449)(cid:374) that i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts look lo(cid:374)ge(cid:396) at (cid:858)(cid:272)o(cid:374)g(cid:396)ue(cid:374)t(cid:859) sti(cid:373)uli. Fo(cid:396) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple, i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts look lo(cid:374)ge(cid:396) at a female face upon hearing a female voice and look longer at a male face upon. Intermodal matching could prove useful in exploring other intergroup preferences in infants by moving beyond simple visual preferences to actual evaluative associations. Subgoal dyb2. 1: throughout the article, the authors argue that this timecourse is inconsistent with one major theory about the way attitudes develop.
