PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Shooting Of Amadou Diallo, Implicit-Association Test, Representativeness Heuristic
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One main thing psychology has to teach us is about top-down processing. We have a lot of control of our thoughts and emotions, if we understand how they work based on top-down processing. Memory and perception are very similar processes, involving us constructing a representation of reality, and forming the raw material we draw upon for all our thinking processes. This is a key theme throughout psychology, and has innumerable implications for psychology, and for important societal issues, like prejudice and discrimination. Helped us solidify prejudice and how it works, important from a historical psychological. He was murdered, but there were two perspectives you could see his murder perspective: his perspective, police officers" perspective: Immigrant to us, lower socioeconomic area in the bronx. He"s outside his house in the middle of the night. A car drives by, they see him and slow down to a stop.
