CONNECTIONIST MODELS AND PERCEPTIONS OF ATYPICAL GROUP M

我们经常会遇到一些不符合社会性别的刻板印象群体的成员。 刻板印象，人们可能会认为，在这些遭遇最终会带来 关于刻板印象的改变。直觉上，这应该是特别正确的 当非典型群体成员都在同一个 路上了然而，搜索表明，刻板印象是非常困难的， 变化，特别是，高度典型的群体成员的子群体 是子类型化的，或者说在精神上与群体的其他成员隔离， 它们在改变陈规定型观念方面是无效的。中的研究 该建议调查可能影响有效性的变量， 在鼓励改变刻板印象方面的作用。在 此外，这里报告的研究调查了 联结主义网络来模拟非典型群体成员的学习。 联结主义的记忆模型正在受到大量的关注， 认知文学，而且很可能将它们纳入我们的 思考行为和思想的社会方面将有助于1） 鼓励从一个新的角度思考社会记忆， 可能导致对社会现象的新预测，2）允许 社会现象来告知这些模型的发展， 在心理学中越来越普遍。

We frequently encounter members of stereotyped groups that do not fit the stereotype, and one might think at these encounters would eventually bring about stereotype change. Intuitively, this should be particularly true when the atypical group members all contradict the stereotype in the same way. However, search indicates that stereotypes are very difficult to change and, in particular, that subgroups of highly typical group members are subtyped, or mentally segregated from the rest of the group such that they are ineffective in bringing about stereotype change. The studies in this proposal investigate variables that might moderate the effectiveness of highly atypical group members in encouraging stereotype change. In addition, the studies reported here investigate the abilities of connectionist networks to model learning bout atypical group members. Connectionist models of memory are receiving substantial attention in the cognitive literature, and it is probable that incorporating them into our thinking about social aspects of behavior and thought will serve to 1) encourage thinking about social memory from a new perspective that ill potentially lead to new predictions about social phenomena, and 2) allow social phenomena to inform he development of these models that are becoming increasingly prevalent throughout psychology.