In a study conducted by Greenwald and colleagues (2003), participants played a videogame-like task in which a black or white character popped out from behind a dumpster.
Participants had to quickly decide if the character was a criminal holding a gun, a private citizen, or an undercover officer. The researchers found that
A) black characters were more likely to be incorrectly shot if they were citizens, but not undercover officers.
B) black characters were more likely to be incorrectly shot by prejudiced individuals, but less likely to be incorrectly shot by non-prejudiced individuals.
C) black characters were more likely to be incorrectly shot than white characters.
D) individuals who did not know the cultural stereotype about blacks were most likely to incorrectly shoot black characters.
Question 2
Alana is a basketball player on an unpopular, low-status team at a small college. Alana will be particularly likely to express negative bias against the basketball players at other colleges if
A) she has high self-esteem.
B) she has low self-esteem.
C) she is religious.
D) she has low need for structure.
Model organisms used to study the genetics of development
Various Substances Used in Piaget’s Conservation Task
Leonardo da Vinci, Study of a Woman's Head or of the Angel of the Vergine delle Rocce.
Models of Selective Attention in the Dichotic Listening Task
The Sacred Quest: An invitation to the Study of Religion
The Prison Study