Author Question: Hightower is a new recruit in the police academy, and is about to begin his very first day of ... (Read 56 times)

jho37 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Hightower is a new recruit in the police academy, and is about to begin his very first day of training with a computer simulation task in which Caucasian and African-American men are portrayed holding ambiguous, weapon-like objects. Research on race and the perceptions of police officers would predict that Hightower

a. would have little trouble distinguishing between Caucasian and African-American targets in such a simulation.
b. would respond differently to the simulation depending on his personal endorsement of race-related stereotypesand prejudicial attitudes.
c. demonstrate more and more bias in his responses the longer his training went on.
d. would have a bias that was consistent with racial stereotypes.

Question 2

Payne (2001) was among the first to conduct research into the shooter bias. He found that participants were more likely to mistake a harmless weapon for a gun if the image was preceded by a picture of a black face than it was if it was preceded by a white face. This shows the influence of ____ on our interpretation of stimuli in our environments.

a. explicit stereotypes
b. self-fulfilling prophecies
c. priming
d. subtyping