In One Study,white Participants Were Faster to Identify a Weapon

question 54

Multiple Choice

In one study,white participants were faster to identify a weapon as a weapon when it was preceded by a picture of an African-American face as opposed to a white face.Subsequent research suggests that this effect is due to 

• A) a stereotypical association between handguns and African-Americans.
• B) generally negative attitudes toward African-Americans.
• C) controlled processing of information about African-Americans.
• D) motivated inattention to stereotype-inconsistent information.

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