PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Implicit Stereotype, Natural Experiment, Triceps Brachii Muscle
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Stereotype are functional and adaptive: however, still unable to predict one person, but predict a group. What can we do to improve situation: positive psychology: stems from this sort of reaction. Asks if we could study people who are healthy/people who are resilient and/or optimistic and asked: what can we learn from them: overall, there are things we can do we have some power/control over these outcomes. Can buffer some of the consequences, may be able to change the way we perceive other people, etc. Individual approach: looking at the individual and seeing what we can do as a society to help any one person change their stereotype/change their associations so that they interact in a fair way with others. Wittenbrink et al. (2001): showed that the iat can move around depending on how people are portrayed: movie and iat: white participants watch one of two movies and then did iat.
