PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Intentionality, Explicit Memory, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Modern prejudice vs. old fashioned prejudice: modern racism, aversive racism. Implicit association test: shoot/don"t shoot reaction time task. Stereotypes are efficient, fulfill motivations, and automatic. But: they negatively impact targets, society has deemed stereotyping to be unsavoury. Mental control requires: operating process (op) Takes action to meet desired state (prevent stereotypes) Compares current state with desired states (scans mind for stereotypes) Op: takes a lot of energy (resource intensive) Mp is resource free don"t need much energy ( detect things: when you are tired the op fails but mp continues but goes at the opposite way of your intended thoughts. Methods: suppress skinhead stereotype vs. non-suppress, write day in the life of photographed person (who looks like a skinhead) They asked them to suppress skinheads then they gave a photo of skinhead and were told to some to suppress and others to write a short story of that skinhead.
