October 31: Discussion Section Flashcards
Lenses: What are they?
Identity-specific schemas for categorizing others (race, gender, religion, etc.)
What paper is the lenses paper?
Petsko
What does the lenses paper show across experiments in general?
- Tend to use just one lense at a time
- This lense can be singular and simplistic (just gender) or intersectional (gender + race)
- Lenses prescribe categorically distinct sets of stereotypes that perceivers use as frameworks for thinking about others
Lens Accessibility
Ease with which a social lens can be retrieved from memory
Lens fit
Extent to which a lens explains normatively or comparatively patterns of ingroup behavior in a context
Perceiver Goals
Desired end states that motivate the use of some lenses over alternatives
Distinctiveness
Extent to which lens-associated identity is rare and thus attention-grabbing in a social context
What is the name of the situational factor that was manipulated in the lens experiments (1a and 1b) and what is it?
Comparative fit: extent to which intergroup behavior correlates with target’s social identities in a social context.
Example: see black vs. white or women vs. men. What lense do you use?
Predicted that memory errors = compartmentalized patterns of social categorization.
Lense Experiment 3: What was cool about it?
When stereotypes agree: old women = church, higher effect than when stereotypes disagree (example: Black women = aggressive)
Wu and Cai’s paper
Gender beliefs about math
Gender math bias
Even when girl’s scores higher, students still believed boys innately better.
Peer-environemtn also contributes to stress among girls about parent expectations.
Stereotype activation reduced math abilitys in college students
Do perciever’s use one lens at a time when categorizing intersectional targets? Does different lens use result in applying different stereotypes to intersectional targets?
Experiment 1a and b of Petsko
Perceivers use 1 lens at a time
No evidence different lens use is associated with applying different stereotypes to intersectional targets
Do perceivers apply particular stereotypes to targets while a particular lens is made contextually salient?
Yes, only when salient. True for age and gender and race and age
Exp a and b of Exp 2
Can percievers use an intersectional and complex lens? And if so, are they distinct from the simplistic lens?
3a: categorical pattern of intersectionality (black women)
3b: pronounced. intersectional more strong (age and women with Church)
Different lens bring to percievers’ minds
CATEGORICALLY DISTINCT sets of stereotypes, which are framworks for their perception of targets
