PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Reality Principle, Dream Interpretation, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Prejudice: a negative attitude toward people based on their membership in a group o. If someone asks you your attitude, you tell them o. Can be assessed using measures of reaction times and special cognitive tasks. More closely associated, the faster you are able to group them together. Because people usually don"t respond accurately when asked whether or not you are prejudiced. Police are more likely to shoot unarmed suspects who are black than they are of another race. Psychologists have used computer aided simulations to decrease the bias. What do you predict if there are automatic associations of black faces with weapons. Takes longer to identify as a weapon when priming person was a white man. Takes longer to identify as a tool when priming person was a black man. Weapon identification is faster when the prime is black white. Non-weapon identification is faster when the prime is. Automatic strong associations that occur in split second o.
