PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psy, Pygmalion Effect, Late Bloomer
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Taking shortcuts opens us to bias which we are often unaware of, these iases can create all sorts of problems . Biases can create their own reality (self-fulfilling prophecy) because expectation perception behaviour consequences. Imagine if you believed everyone was a lying, manipulate, selfish cheater who would take advantage of you at the first opportunity go through life in a very different way. Biases are often based on our motivations which can alter the information we pay attention to, the information remember and the meaning that we read into our experiences. Interviewer"s bias towards black and white people differential treatment. Watch behaviour and code behaviour for certain cues. Follow up study how differential treatment affects people. Trained interviewers to be either friendly, eye contact (white treatment) or non-eye contact, shifty (black treatment) white percipients, half interviewed in a and b people in b perform worse.
