PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Startle Response, Ibm Officevision, Bacon
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Week 6 lecture #5: thursday february 11, 2016. Class overview: measuring modern prejudice (cont, prejudiced personality, authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, need for structure/need for closure, motivation to control prejudice, midterm overview & class questions. Curiosities: midterm in 2 weeks!, deferred exam will be scheduled soon:: E. g. , seeing black man hold a gun and not the white man. No class on the week of the midterm. When ppl make mistakes do they make mistakes systematically or just an honest mistake. Might see certain groups of ppl more dangerous than others. Detroit, police a (black) man who was holding a vcr remote. Man holding a wallet and got shot 41 times ---> all 4 polices thought it was a gun. Raise the question as if these were systematic errors. Correll et al. , 2002: expectancies about social categories guide interpretation. Error rate for shoot/don"t shoot decisions as a function of race and object e t a r r o r r.
