PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Shift Work, Fidgeting, Miranda Warning
24 Feb 2014
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We"re going to cover police stress (ch. 2) and interrogations (ch. 3) False/wrongful convictions on thursday two wrongfully convicted people coming to speak on saturday. Alain olivier wrongfully convicted of drug trafficking spent 8 years in thailand (prison) Quiz 1 will be released next monday covers ch. 1-3 (everything up to. African american or white, and what he was holding: have to hit button (shoot/don"t shoot) as quickly as possible, (job was to shoot if he had a gun, studied reaction time and error rate, results: Community members were more likely to shoot (lower threshold) But both had a racial bias both were more likely to shoot. African american holding cell phone, less likely to shoot white guy holding a gun. Others would be: firefighters (risk), emergency room surgeons (work environment), air traffic controllers, miners (work environment) Recently, added idea that areas with high degree of competition (real estate agent, sales, ceos) have high amounts of stress.
