PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Role

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH238
• Professor: Doug Brown

Document Summary

Perception: the process of interpreting the messages of our senses to provide order and meaning to the environment. Process which people select, organize, and interpret information about other people. Need to simplify the world - humans don"t have the bandwidth to process everything. As your skills go up, your outcome is higher/given more opportunities (positive correlation) Workers make 73 cents. full time workers make 81. Not comfortable with the sentence gender causes pay difference" But comfortable that correlation between gender and pay but no direct causation. Wages = gender + years of education + job experience + other factors. James is part of the top 5% of employees to have high annual performance. Andrea has the same rating as james of high annual performance. Men are more likely to get a demanding job than women. Descriptive- what is or what group members are like. Proscriptive- what should be or how group members should be or behave.