PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Stapler, Rodney King, Eyewitness Testimony
16 Apr 2013
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Focus on positive benefits found in being married in society. Much higher chance that people would think that the razor the white man is holding was actually held by the black man. Retelling of story from one person to another. Where people are asked what they see in a fuzz and as time goes by it becomes less and less noisy. Crime relevant would be guns and knives. Crime irrelevant would be pocket watch, telephone, bugle horn, penny, key, book, camera, cup, saucer, stapler, staple remover. Even unconsciously with black person flashes, they would be more inclined to think of crime related objects. It would prime them to see guns more readily. For crime irrelevant, it didn"t matter whether they were primed with white, no , or black prime faces. With crime relevant being white prime needed more frames in order to recognize object. With black prime, they needed less frames to recognize object, no prime was control no difference.
