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question 31

Multiple Choice

Hightower is a new recruit in the police academy about to begin his very first day of training with a computer simulation task in which White and Black men are portrayed holding ambiguous, weapon-like objects. Research on race and the perceptions of police officers would predict that Hightower

• A) would have little trouble distinguishing between White and Black targets in such a simulation.
• B) would respond differently to the simulation depending on his personal endorsement of race-related stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes.
• C) demonstrate more and more bias in his responses the longer his training went on.
• D) None of these

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Errors

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Standard Deviation

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