PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Michael Faraday, Intelligence Quotient
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The mental shortcuts one may take to comprehend something can lead to biases, which are subconscious in nature and can thus evade one"s awareness. There arises a question of whether or not biases create a mental auto-pilot whose perception will negatively in uence one"s perception through generalizations. Biases are capable of creating their own reality, since the aws they create in one"s perception can lead to awed behaviour, eventually leading to unfavourable consequences. Example: self-ful lling prophecies": how does an employer interview someone for a job if the employer already expects the potential employee will be less than competent as they want. !1: mode a"s positive dispositions were ideal and were very successful; mode b was not and saw many of its participants unsuccessful. It is determined that the quality of applicants (determined by rst impressions) can be shifted decisively through subconscious biases. 12: the late bloomers" were the experiment group; their iqs grew by 27.
