Psychology 1000 Study Guide - The Techniques, Drive Theory, Physical Attractiveness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Question: when instructor tell subject to them to write will have no effect, no dissonance. Prejudice: prejudice is an attitude, discrimination is a behaviour, both negative and unjustified. Theories of prejudice: hovland and sears (1940) They all look alike to me : outgroup homogeneity effect. Eyewitness study: atkinson (1993) photos. When male rating similarity when 2 female is present, the 2 males on the top will be perceived similar compared to 4 males: tajfel and wilkes (1963) When create two groups, we can see that each group seems similar. The exam: 75 mc, chapter 9 13. 15 lecture questions: lots of stuff are on theories, understand the theories to produce the facts, names are not important, don"t care about ages. Care about the stages: the differences between the theories. Language: chapter 9: properties of language, syntax. Really important, structure, how to put sentences together. Deep and surface structure: language learning. Things people do for problem solving: heuristic processing.