Biased flash cards Deck 1

Question 1

True or false: Unlike categorization, the process of stereotyping is universal.

Answer 1

False -“ JUST LIKE” categorizing categorization, the process of stereotyping is universal.

Question 2

McGuire’s team found that the brain of taxicab drivers- who had by necessity learned the structural layout of more than twenty-five thousand London streets showed significant differences in the ____________, the part of the brain that plays a critical role in spatial memory and recognition.

Answer 2

Hippocampus

Question 3

Mutiple choice: According to the author: Implicit bias is kind of distorting lens that a product of both the architecture of our________________, and the disparity in society.

Answer 3

Brain

Question 4

We label the beliefs we have about social groups as “ Stereotypes” and attitudes we have about them_________,

Answer 4

prejudice

Question 5

True or False: Whether bad or good, whether justified or unjustified, our beliefs and attitudes can become so strongly associated with the category that they are automatically triggered, affecting our behavior and decision making.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What? ______, is grouping like things together.

Answer 6

Categorization

Question 7

True or False: we reserve our precious cognitive resources for those who are different from us.

Answer 7

True: Once faces are categorized as out-group members they are not processed as deeply or attended to carefully.

Question 8

True or False: Our research showed that black officers were less likely than white officers to exhibit less respect to black drivers.

Answer 8

False: Our research showed that black officers were just as likely, as white officers to exhibit less respect to black drivers. The drivers race trumped the officers race.

Question 9

True or False: The stereotypic associations we carry in our heads can affect what we perceive, how we think, and the actions we take.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True or False According to the author: Only a tiny fraction of officers involved in a questionable shooting are prosecuted, and they are usually convicted.

Answer 10

False: it’s rare to get a conviction

Question 11

Psychologist today dub what worried Lippmann”________________, people tend to seek out and attend to information that already confirms their beliefs.

Answer 11

Confirmation bias