PSY100H1 Study Guide - Confirmation Bias, Black Kids, Intelligence Quotient
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Obama is black, but he"s not really black to make themselves believe that they did a good thing. The reason we hold onto stereotypes is so we can be lazy. Don"t have to evaluate the prof as an individual because stereotypes act as a mental short cut: we know who he is. Given name of someone with trait terms associated with name of person. Some people were given a categorical label like skinhead, doctor or go. Aggressive and likes leather goes with being a skinhead. Being smart and w. e doesn"t go with being a skinhead: mary (doctor) Half contribute to being a doctor, half of the traits don"t. Participants had to say which person"s name the trait belongs to after listening to a passage. Those who were given a categorical label when asked to memorize traits with a person, were more likely to recall the relevant and irrelevant traits toward the categorical variable.
