PSY322H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Alfredo Stroessner, Social Identity Theory, Stroop Effect
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Bodenhausen & macrae (1998) model, to reduce bias we need to confront our beliefs, evaluations, behaviour, facilitatory factors: Normative discrimination compliant endorsement: inhibitory factors: Your personal belief should become the new rival response to your stereotypes: stopping stereotype at initial processing, negation training, kawakami, dovidio, moll, hermsen, & russin (2000) Press no button when you see photo + stereotypic trait. Press yes when you see photo + nonstereotypic trait. Stopping stereotype at personal control of b&m model: thought suppression: wegner"s model (dual process, 1. Monitoring process: search for unwanted thought (automatic: 2. Operating process: distracter search (controlled) replace bad thought with something else. Cognitively draining process (resource dependent), doesn"t happen unless automatic process finds the thought: rebound effect - our unconscious is priming your stereotypic thoughts, macrae, bodenhausen, milne, & jetten (1994) (experiment 1) Method: asked ps to suppress stereotyped descriptions vs. no suppression: complete 2 passages, 1 describe a typical day in the life of target (skinhead).
