PSYCH101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stroop Effect, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Article: cognitive costs of exposure to racial prejudice (salvatore and shelton) Study examines how encountering racial prejudice affects cognitive functioning. Purpose of the study was to examine the depletion or impairment in cognitive functioning from exposure to racial-prejudice cues between black and white subjects. Study assessed the performance on the stroop colour task after subjects reviewed job files that explained how an evaluator had made non-prejudiced , Ambiguously prejudiced, and blatantly prejudiced choices when making hiring recommendations. Dependent variable = the cognitive impact of exposure to ambiguous vs blatant prejudice measured by the impairments or success at the stroop colour test. 255 princeton university undergraduates participated in the study to test this hypothesis. 122 blacks, 128 whites = 2 races (black + white); evaluators race (black and. Three racial-prejudice cues = none, ambiguous, or blatant. Performance of stroop test determined how cognitive capacities were impaired after reading the files. Circumstances under which encounters with race-based prejudice can disrupt cognitive.