Immediately Following the Protests in Ferguson, Many White Residents Commented

question 76

Multiple Choice

Immediately following the protests in Ferguson, many white residents commented that Mr.Brown's death

• A)revealed racial tensions they had not realized were there.
• B)uncovered a well-hidden system of ongoing and purposeful racism.
• C)described the true extent to which racism had been addressed.
• D)aggravated the already existing racist tendencies of white citizens.

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Definitions:

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember information at the beginning of a list better than the information that follows.

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember the most recently presented information best in a series of items.

Interference

A phenomenon in which one memory competes with or replaces another memory, making it less likely to be recalled.

Short-term Storage

The part of the memory system that is responsible for temporarily holding information.