PSYC12H3 Lecture 2: lecture 2 notes
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No class next week, exams are noncumulative 50% text/lectures. so we build categories for these infinite stimuli: mental shortcut and the way we learn, even though don"t mean to categorize we do it spontaneously, eg race, gender, age, study of 6 people talking. eg what a professor is like: doesn"t take too long to make an impression, stereotypes are not necessarily bad. eg people in same colour group are similar to you. people in other colour groups are like night and day (very different: also tend to think of out groups as all the same but people in in-group are all different and unique. I clicker question: how do you think media represents the world? www. notesolution. com. black on black or white on white: whites are 2x as likely to be seen as victims than perpetrators. a) we don"t categorize people and things. b)to create order out of the stimuli in the environment.
