In Tests of Facial Recognition, People

question 106

Multiple Choice

In tests of facial recognition, people

• A)are much better at recognizing faces of other races than their own race.
• B)show a consistent other-race effect.
• C)are able to recognize the faces of people from other races better if they are in a negative mood.
• D)exhibit all of these.

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Definitions:

Person Schemas

Cognitive structures that contain knowledge, beliefs, and expectations about others that influence how we perceive and respond to them.

Content-Free Schemas

Cognitive structures that represent generic concepts without specific content, guiding the understanding of new information.

Social Stereotypes

Overgeneralized beliefs about a particular group of people that simplifies complex human behaviors and characteristics.

Prototypes

Representative examples of a category or class that encapsulate the most characteristic features of that category, used in cognitive processing to recognize and categorize objects or concepts.