PSY 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mahzarin Banaji
5 Sep 2019
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Quantitative approach for systematically combining results of previous research to arrive at conclusions about the body of research. Synthesizes results once a large body of work has been conducted. Investigates large-scale patterns beyond the scope of individual experiments. Moral and legal responsibility to abide by ethical principles. Virtually every study now has to be evaluated for its ethics by an external committee before the study can be conducted. Most popular method of assessing prejudiced attitudes, ste reotypes, and discrimination in psychology. How they have behaved in the past. How they would behave in a given situation. Easy to administer and collect data quickly. Participants don"t always provide their true attitudes. Social desirability bias - presenting oneself and one"s attitudes as very positive, in order to give the most socially acceptable attitude/behavior, even if it deviates from one"s true attitudes. Ways to decrease the influence of social desirability.
