Psychology 2135A/B Lecture 13: Lecture 13

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Bystander effect and stereotypes: prejudice (attitude formed about particular group) discrimination (behaviour that results from prejudice) Video: black woman discriminated in a boutique by staff workers. Experiment to show how specific prior examples influence categorization over and above the use of simple defining features. Builders creatures that lived in shelters that they built from materials found in their environment. Diggers creatures that lived in holds they dug up. Participants took longer to classify, and made more errors in categorizing the negative matches. List 7 most important events that are likely to take place in that infant"s life (script) Script: a structure that describes an appropriate sequence of events in a particular context or, a predetermined stereotyped sequence of actions that defines a well-known situation. Life scripts: a cultural narrative that guides autobiographical memories and prescribes the age norms for important events in an individual"s life.