PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Mock Interview, Confirmation Bias, Impression Formation
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How is it possible for a person who is racist to vote for someone who is black. Don cherry, dislikes french canadian hockey players but when confronted he says he does like them mentally putting people in different categorizes. Yeah he"s french but he"s a different kind of french" does this to take away that he"s doing something different from his current beliefs. Allows for maintenance of stereotypes and prejudice. Can still dislike a group but like certain people that belong to that group. Humans have developed cognitive tools" allowing us to analyze social environment efficiently. Stereotypes are one of these tools"; they allow us to forego effortful individuation, make useful predictions, when taxed, people use stereotypes. Task 1 impression formation: name followed by 10 trait terms half given a stereotypic label (eg. doctor, artist, skinhead) half given no label half of the traits were stereotypic, half neutral. Task 2 information monitoring ps. heard a 2 minute passage on indonesia.
