PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Dave Chappelle, Lexical Decision Task, Jewish Quota
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Covers lecs, ch 1-5 and bodenhausen and greenwald readings. Stereotypes are: efficient, fulfill motivations and, automatic. But there are problems with them: negatively impact targets, society has deemed stereotyping to be unsavoury. To understand mental control or suppression, need to understand: control has a feedback loop. Goal operate monitor back to goal. To establish control, one needs a goal: e. g. don"t think about x. Once you have a goal, you erase all thoughts of x from your mind. Also, need a monitor - a system that detects when what you want is different from what you have. Detects when you are thinking about x: once detected, feeds back to operating system to let it know there is something in my mind that i want to be pushed away. Operating process: takes action to meet desired state (to prevent stereotypes, resource-rich, controlled. Monitoring process: compares current state with desired states (scans mind for stereotypes, resource-free, automatic.
