PSY322H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dependent And Independent Variables, Depersonalization, In-Group Favoritism
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Negatives: social desirability, measurement error, demand effects not giving their true responses not to look good, trying to figure out what the experimenter is looking for. Modern racism scale is not so explicit. Not asking how much you like the group, rather they are asking about your thoughts regarding issues about blacks. However maybe the modern racism scale was not that different from the old fashioned racism scale. Confounds prejudice with conservatism: political and racial attitudes, dimensionality. People might quickly figure out that this scale measures racism, 2nd administration of mrs administered by black or white experimenter, mrs part of a larger opinion survey. Responses are going to be entered into computer personally by the white or black experimenter. Results: both conditions have a decrease in prejudice levels when their responses are entered personally, however the black experimenter condition have a larger decrease. Task 1: learn faces: black or white. Measurements: facilitation scores = baseline prime.
