PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psy, Alcohol By Volume

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Psy 100 lecture 3 biases & attention (subtitles are bolded and capitalized) (key terms and concepts are bolded) (instructions and afterthoughts from the professor are in **asterisks**) Biases have the ability to create their own reality, because perception behavior consequences: e. g. Imagine if you believed everyone was a lying, manipulative selfish cheater who would take advantage of you at the first opportunity, vs. thinking everyone is kind, generous : depending on how you perceive something, your behavior will change. Word, zanna & cooper study: a study conducted in the mid-1970s of a white interviewer"s behavior when interviewing different races, interviewers didn"t behave the same way when they interviewed white people vs black people. White people: more eye contact, at ease, leaning forward follow-up questions. Black people: less eye contact, leaning back, tense body language, shorter interview: showing that differential treatment occurs and how that differential treatment affects people in different groups.