PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Availability Heuristic, Fundamental Attribution Error, Representativeness Heuristic
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Psyche thoughts, feelings and behaviour all linked to ea/other. Cognition, emotion and behaviour stereotype, (associate characteristic with social category) is the cognition behind discrimination prejudice (anger/suspicion/hatred), discrimination (behavioural component, no eye-contact, not smiling, autonomic arousal) Exp 2 e. g. prime elderly or neutral through sentence-unscrambling task elderly condition: old, grey, wise, bingo, florida, wrinkle, ancient, knits, etc. walked slowly if they thought about being old! Exp 3 flash pictures of black faces or white faces subliminally, while subjects perform a computer task. Task: 4 to 25 circles will appear in little square on screen. Task is to judge as quickly as possible whether there are an odd or even number of circles . 130 trials later: f11 error, failure saving data sorry, you"re going to have to start again! Reaction ? how much anger/hostility/uncooperativeness demonstrated by subjects who saw white faces vs. saw black faces experiment made ratings based on interaction, double-blind study.
