Chapter 1 Flashcards
For nearly 50 years, scientists have been documenting that people are much better at recognizing faces of their own race than faces of other races. This finding is dubbed the____
Other -Race Effect
Which is best described as a horseshoe shaped structure in the medial temporal lobe of the brain ?
The hippocampus
Which is a trench like structure in the temporal lobe that is vital to social competence, helping us to read the many different expressions that can emerge on someone’s face and signaling us to approach, smile, share, flee, or quickly arm ourselves?
Superior temporal sulcus
What is buried deep near the base of the brain and helps us distinguish the familiar from unfamiliar, friend from foe and is widely thought to be primitive and fundamental to our survivor as species ?
The Fusiform Face Area
____ is a basic human need, and without it, we are left alone, vulnerable, and exposed ?
Affiliation
What has research and real -life experience shown us?
The chance of false alarms or identifying someone as the culprit, who is not, goes way up when the suspect is of a different race from the victim
______ is known as grouping things like things together and is a universal function of the brain that allows us to organize and manage the overload of stimuli that constantly bombard us?
Categorization
At its core, what does Newman’s story show us?
How categorization can be precursor to bias
We label the beliefs about social groups_____ and the attitudes we have about them as _____
Stereotypes/ prejudice
Walter Lippmann was considered one of the most Influential journalists of the 20th Century. What did he call the “pictures in our heads” as the impressions that reflect subjective perceptions but stand in for objective reality ?
Stereotype
____ is known as people tending to seek out and attend to the information that already confirms their beliefs which is a mechanism that allows inaccurate benefits to spread and persist?
Confirmation Bias
What is designed to measure associations that we don’t even know we have where children sit in front of a computer screen shown pictures of people and the child reacts with words to describe them?
Implicit association test
What is a standard technique used in psychology to measure the extend to which people are influenced by words or images that are beneath their conscious awareness ?
Subliminal Priming Task
______ comes from the old type setting process, in which a mold of message is cast on a metal plate and replicated in the printing provides again and again, mimicking the unchecked spread of ideas that we presume to be true?
Stereotype
Which of the following, generated from the “crime prime” is reminiscent of the phenomenon of “high visibility” which is a theme in Ralph Ellison’ 1950’s American classic, Invisible Man?
Increased Visual attention to black faces