Regarding the effect of race on judgments of a defendant's guilt, aversive racism theory predicts that people will be most affected by race when

a. the race of the defendant is not made salient
b. there is an eyewitness to the crime
c. the jury is all the same race
d. the judge encourages people not to be influenced by race

Answer: A

Psychology

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a) An incentive b) Homeostasis c) The Yerkes-Dodson law d) Motivation

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An advantage of the information-processing approach is that the approach

A) is precisely stated and capable of leading to testable hypotheses. B) focuses on how cognitive development is influenced by cultural factors. C) emphasizes how cognitive development occurs in qualitative stages. D) paints a whole, comprehensive picture of cognitive development.

Psychology