PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Representativeness Heuristic, Fundamental Attribution Error, Shooting Of Amadou Diallo
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Cognitive schema: an organized system of knowledge that guides info. processing (activating your bias of attention: you will notice things where people are behaving gender appropriately, counter examples that discourage your belief will be less noticeable) Fundamentally no different from any concept (i. e. ; an abstraction, comprised of interconnected beliefs that organs our perceptions and guides cognitive, affective and behavioural processes) ie; julie andrews your best friend restaurant professor. How do stereotypes -> perceptions? (why are stereotypes in your mind in the rst place? they activate when you meet someone that belongs to a group that you have a stereotype of stereotype can also fade quickly) Duncan 1978 - students watch an ambiguously hostile interaction between a. White and black student; one student shoves the other. White shover" -> shove was less serious, more playful. Black shover" -> shove was more aggressive and hostile.
