Practice question · Select all that apply
Select every statement that is TRUE about how bias persists and how it can be reduced.
Hints
- Two options are false: one misunderstands what makes implicit bias implicit, and one ignores the mechanism described in the first option.
- If contradicting evidence is filtered out before it registers, what happens to a corrective fact?
Show the answer
- A. Confirmation bias makes people overlook or forget opposing evidence.
- B. Cooperative, equal-status contact between groups reduces prejudice.
- D. Out-group homogeneity makes other groups seem more uniform than one's own.
Why
Confirmation bias, out-group homogeneity and the contact hypothesis are all as described. Implicit bias is defined by operating below awareness, so it appears in people who sincerely reject prejudice; and the fact-correction option is refuted by confirmation bias itself - the corrective evidence tends to be filtered out by the very belief it was meant to dislodge.
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