People Often Maintain Stereotypes About Groups Even After They Have

question 110

Multiple Choice

People often maintain stereotypes about groups even after they have met individuals who contradict the stereotype.Given the phenomenon of memory bias, what might one reason be that a stereotype does NOT change with new information?

• A)The memory for the individual shifts in the direction of the stereotype.
• B)Old memories of the individual are incorrectly combined into new ones.
• C)Other people with similar beliefs give false information about the individual.
• D)The person does not recognize the beliefs to be a stereotype.

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Definitions:

Retrograde Amnesia

The inability to recall events or information learned prior to sustaining an injury or the beginning of a disease.

Brain Damage

Physical harm to the brain that impairs its functions, potentially resulting from accidents, strokes, or diseases.

Encoding

The process by which information is transformed into a format that can be stored and later retrieved from memory.

Consciously Recall

The deliberate and effortful process of retrieving information or memories from one's past.