PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Loafing, Social Influence, Smoke-Filled Room

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Implicit and explicit prejudice : attitudes that we are not consciously aware of and automatically formed over time. Explicit prejudice attitudes that we can self-report. The shooter task: huge influx in implicit prejudice. Shooter task implicit measure of prejudice: participants have the choice to shoot or not to shoot when they see a person (holding guns or wallets) The amount of bias you show vs. armed black targets is not predicted by how prejudice you are predicted by knowledge/awareness of those stereotypes. Ingroups any social group you"re a member of. Outgroup everybody else (us vs. them) Ingroup favouritism: prefer members of ingroup, if divided into 2 groups randomly you still favourite your group vs. other group. Doesn"t mean your hostile to members of an outgroup. Outgroup hostility competing with other members. Members of outgroup all the same; ingroups see variation and individuals. Different reasons: more familiar with ingroup, know everyone"s indiv. traits and characteristics, focus on differences between indiv.