PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Shooting Of Amadou Diallo, Truck Driver, Representativeness Heuristic

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Psychology could be a tool to break through mindsets of close-minded people. There goes the brown person arguing about discrimination . In some ways we haven"t come that far; there is a long way to go. People hold these stereotypes; may not explicitly show. Culturally seek, brown: seeks muslim are not same, grouped into terror suspect category. Automatic stereotype and prejudice processing : guide our thinking and awareness in ways we aren"t aware of. Perspective amadou: standing outside his home, low income area, alone, middle of night, 4 white guys in car, not police car he"s probably freaking out, turns to go inside, pulls out for wallet, dies. Police run in; split second say get down less then 1ssec they shoot him dead. Need to understand how our thoughts, feeling, behaviours work to understand this. They are all reciprocal processes that causally affect each other. The psyche thoughts feeling behaviours, positive feedback, reciprocally linked.