PSY 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stereotype, Parenting Styles, Longitudinal Study

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 171
• Professor: Elenbaas

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2:03 pm (finish up self and other; start topic of families) Implicit bias - unconscious, uncontrolled biases towards others. How exposure to different races affect children"s implicit biases. Based on assumption that children can understand other people"s mental states (cid:894)so (cid:449)e use these pi(cid:272)tures of so(cid:272)ial i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s (cid:449)here t(cid:449)o (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) are i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed (cid:895) [topic: explaining study of mcglothlin, two children in front and behind the swing] Participant answered differently depending on whether they were in majority background race groups. More likely for participants to say - kid pushed him over, bad things happened for top pictures. Kids who stayed in homogenous schools had even stronger biases later in 10 years of age. No difference in kids who were exposed to other backgrounds, did not show racial biases. Brofenbenner"s ecological system is helpful in understanding how different worlds, social communities affect children. Origins - families, peers, broader context (school, media)