According to the Author, One of the Best Ways to Improve

question 18

Multiple Choice

According to the author, one of the best ways to improve relationships between the police and minority groups is to _____________.

• A)enforce the law differentially against minority group members
• B)appoint a minority member as police chief
• C)ensure that minority groups are adequately represented in a jurisdiction's police department
• D)hold minority group members to a less strict standard of legal behavior

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Definitions:

Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Inattentional Blindness

The phenomenon where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight, due to focusing attention on another task, event, or object.

Counting Task

A cognitive task requiring individuals to count objects, stimuli, or events, often used to assess attention, speed, and working memory.

Gorilla Suit

A reference to a famous experiment highlighting inattentional blindness, where observers fail to notice a gorilla-suited figure amidst a visual task.