White Participants in a Psychology Study Were Asked to Decide,as

question 44

Multiple Choice

White participants in a psychology study were asked to decide,as rapidly as possible,whether an object that they had been briefly shown was a gun or a tool.Before seeing the picture,they were briefly shown a picture of either a black face or a white face.When the subjects saw a black face,they:

• A) identified the gun more quickly
• B) identified the tool more slowly
• C) incorrectly identified tools as guns and identified the tool more slowly
• D) identified the gun more quickly and incorrectly identified tools as guns