Biased flash cards Deck 2
True or False: Categorization can be a precursor to bias.
True
True or False Parolees can be stopped and searched by police at any time, even absent probable cause or reasonable suspicion.
According to the author TRUE
True or False: Categorization can impede our efforts to embrace and understand people who are deemed not like us, by tuning us to the faces of people who look like use and dampening our sensitivity to those who don’t
True
True or False: Those officers who work in bigger cities, with large black population and higher crime rates, tend to exhibit the greatest racial bias in reaction time.
True
According to the author: The _________, system is a clear example of how institutional practice can directly affect the mental connections we make.
Plea bargain
A region Known as the _____________, buried deep near the base of the brain, help us distinguish the familiar from the unfamiliar, friend or foe.
Fusiform face area
According to the author, the fundamental question is how dose _________, shape who we are and how we experience the world.
Race
Ture or False: Confirmation bias is a mechanism that allows inaccurate beliefs to spread and persist.
True
Walter Lippmann applied the term ___________, to what he called the pictures in our heads impressions that reflect subjective perceptions but stand in for.
Stereotype
