PSY-PC 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Preferences

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology and Human Development
• Course: PSY-PC 1250
• Professor: Amy Booth

Document Summary

Familiarization and then test (show multiple male faces/familiarize to male, and then show pictures of a male and a female; if look at female face longer (surprise paradigm), understanding of gender categorization. Infants tend to prefer/look longer at faces that matched their own racial categories. "is your baby racist?" (big controversy: possibility of familiarity (in adoption studies, asian infants adopted into. Caucasian families, preference for caucasian faces: but is there any other evidence to suggest racial discrimination . Social status being taken into account? (even though. Indication that wealth/status may be an explanation, but not all about social status (influence of social status clearly being moderated by something else--"like me bias") For example, if saw a picture of a woman mowing the lawn, in recall activities, 25% of children will recall the action but flip the gender (say man mowing lawn: where do gender schemas come from, before birth, explicit labeling, example--"good morning boys and girls" at school.