Why Would Researchers Like Patricia Devine (1989)flash Stereotypic Words Like

question 125

Essay

Why would researchers like Patricia Devine (1989)flash stereotypic words like "black," "hostile," or "lazy" so quickly that participants don't recognized them,and why would researchers like Russell Fazio and his colleagues (in press)flash white and black faces so quickly that participants wouldn't realize they had "seen" them?

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Definitions:

Parabolic Shape

The shape of the graph of a quadratic function, resembling a curve that opens upwards or downwards.

Linearity

The attribute of a relationship or function that can be graphically represented as a straight line, indicating a constant rate of change.

P-Value

The probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the results actually observed, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is correct.

Slope Coefficient

A measure in statistics that represents the rate of change in the dependent variable per unit change in an independent variable in a linear model.