PSYC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Load, Cognitive Dissonance, Prefrontal Cortex
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When discussing police discrimination, they said call jennifer eberhardt social psychologist! Another well-attended session was regarding methodological procedures: how can we ensure that the research published is the most representative of the general public. What happens when you think about a person: social information judgments. Medial pre-frontal cortex thinking about people (not task) We stereotype people on two dimensions: competence, warmth, if people look at pictures, with low warmth and competence no activation of brain region see them as objects, not humans. Ex: homeless people dehumanizing the lowest of the low (look at slide) Biased in how we remember social information: evidence: Hastorf & cantril (1954): they saw a game. Looked at football fan"s response to dartmouth vs. Lord, ross & lepper (1979): biased assimilation. Took people in favor and against capital punishment and exposed them to mixed evidence on its effectiveness in increasing or decreasing murder rate: one fake study in favor and the other against.
