PSYC 213 Lecture 20: Lecture 20and21
6 Nov 2018
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After the fact rationalization of why you did something. Useful for avoiding cognitive dissonance: choice blindness: when the outcome of your choice is the stimulus that is being changed, without the person noticing. Generally thought to relate to efficient and appropriate decision- making. Tests (iq) have been designed to measure general intelligence differences. American university students asked to estimate their iq scores and their parents iq scores. Compared to males, female students underestimated their scores. Females attributed higher iq scores to other people compared to themselves more often than males. Both males and females gave higher iq estimates for their. Both males and females gave higher iq estimates for their fathers than their mothers. Interpretation: there is a gender bias in how intelligence is viewed. Test scores are compared to pre- tested "standardization" or "norm" groups. A symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes test score distribution. Mean (average) of 100 and a standard deviation (variation) of.
