On a Test, If People Who Claimed Not to Be

question 431

Multiple Choice

On a test, if people who claimed not to be prejudiced against women working outside the home were slower and less accurate in classifying words into the categories of Female or Career as opposed to Female or Family, this would indicate that they

• A)may harbor implicit prejudices.
• B)developed group prejudices in childhood.
• C)unlearned their initial prejudices.
• D)have an evolutionary predisposition to view women in a nurturing role.

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