Current assumptions about the processing role of prior social knowledge in social perception may need modification when applied to situations that are richer and more complex than typical research paradigms. Two experiments investigated whether stereotypic knowledge would influence social perception in a more realistic setting. In Experiment 1, subjects watched a videotape of a target woman identified either as a waitress or a librarian. Subjects more accurately rememA bered features of the woman that were consistent with their prototype of a / waitress (librarian) than features that were inconsistent. The prototype-consistency effect did not interact with the delay time before recognition memory was assessed. In Experiment 2, subjects learned the occupational information either before or after watching the tape. The prototype-consistency effect from Experiment 1 was replicated. In addition, knowing the target's occupation while watching her led to increased accuracy for both consistent and inconsistent information. The probable role of both encoding and retrieval processes in contributing to this effect is noted. Perceivers' stereotypic prior knowledge influenced their memory / of a target person's behavior even in a realistic person-perception situation. Conditions that favor the memorability of consistent versus inconsistent information are discussed.Recent work in person perception has emphasized the influence of prior social knowledge, structured and stored in the perceiver's "head," on the processing of novel information about another person (Cantor &

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