21. 밑줄 친 it’s an angry protest from the brain’s reward system이
다음 글에서 의미하는 바로 가장 적절한 것은? [3점]
Our brains light up when our predicted reality and actual
reality match. Our brains love to be right. We also don’t like to
be wrong, and we feel threatened when our stereotyped
predictions don’t come true. Psychologist Wendy Mendes asked
White and Asian college students to interact with Latino
students who had been hired as actors by the researchers.
Some of the Latino students portrayed themselves as
socioeconomically “high status,” with lawyer fathers, professor
mothers, and summers spent volunteering in Europe. Others
portrayed themselves as “low status,” with unemployed parents
and part-time summer jobs. The researchers found that when
participants interacted with the Latino students who appeared
to come from wealth and thus challenged American stereotypes,
they responded physiologically as if to a threat: their blood
vessels constricted and their heart activity changed. In these
interactions, participants also saw the students who violated
stereotypes as less likable. In this way, stereotypes that are
descriptive can easily become prescriptive. The phenomenon, it
turns out, may have a neuroscientific explanation: it’s an angry
protest from the brain’s reward system.
① Our brain prefers actual reality to predicted reality.
② Humans have a tendency to deny that they are stereotyped.
③ Humans are conditioned to avoid people who resemble them.
④ Our brain dislikes when something goes against its prediction.
⑤ When dissatisfied, the brain operates to make itself feel better.
🔎 Our brains light up when our predicted reality and actual reality match.: Google 검색
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Jessica Nordell
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds
