Author Question: Research presented in your text on the own-race bias has shown that in general, people are better at ... (Read 62 times)

jwb375 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Research presented in your text on the own-race bias has shown that in general, people are better at recognizing faces of people

a. who are white.
b. who are similar in age and race to themselves.
c. of the same gender as themselves.
d. who look distinctive or unusual in some way.

Question 2

It is possible that before eyewitnesses came forward to identify Randall Adams as the man who murdered a police officer, they had seen his face on television or in the newspaper.

Because they saw Adams in the media, they might have come to believe that he was the man they saw on the road where the murder occurred. This is an example of
a. the own-race bias.
b. erroneous source monitoring.
c. the power of schemas to bias attention.
d. racial misidentification.