The Own-Race Identification Bias

question 20

Multiple Choice

The own-race identification bias

• A) results mainly from problems with memory retrieval.
• B) is consistent in many ways with the concept of outgroup homogeneity.
• C) has been observed among Caucasian but not African-American eyewitnesses.
• D) is reduced by the presence of a weapon during the crime in question.

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