PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Stereotype Threat, Business Travel, Sexual Objectification
11 Mar 2013
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Review: what are the basic mental processes underlying prejudice (and is it inevitable), categorization, socially shared knowledge and beliefs (devine, attitudes (towards) other groups (fazio) Involves automatic and controlled processes: chronic activation and contextual effects. Implicit and explicit attitudes predict different kinds of behavior (spontaneous vs deliberative) Interpersonal distance: memory for interviewee"s physical characteristics and what she said, social interaction with a female confederate, multiple schemas available, need to prime heterosexual schema, should only work for memory. Interactive model: chronics especially likely to display priming effects. The likelihood to sexually harass scale (pryor, 1987): Overview of procedure: lsh subjects recontacted for subsequent study, view ads for market research , finish early (25 mins) - interview and evaluate woman for office managerial position as favour to experimenter (high vs low. Control subjects for a lexical decision task power) Words for lexical decision task: sexist words.
