PSY 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 66: Drawing Pin, Confirmation Bias

• School: Pace University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 112
• Professor: Siporin

Document Summary

Schemas help to remember info by organizing material into coherent representations. Process that makes stereotypes very difficult to change. Once we begin to believe in something, such as a stereotype about a group of ppl, it becomes very difficult to later convince us that these beliefs are not true. Darley & gross (1983): demonstrated how schemas about social class could influence memory, gave participants a picture & some info about a 4th grade girl named. # of correct & incorrect answers was the same in both conditions: then participants were asked to remember how many questions. To prove that stereotypes had influenced memory, participants who thought hannah had come from an upper-class background remembered she had gotten more correct answers than those who thought she was from a lower-class background. Our reliance on schemas can also make it more difficult for us to (cid:498)think outside the box. (cid:499: duncker (1945): an object in new & nontraditional ways.