effect of race on face recognition
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In everyday life we don't often see faces on their own. It is usually the people we recognize rather than the face. This is usually a mixture of the clothes, build, voice, hair colour and their face.
According to research people find it much easier to recognize and identify faces from their own race then people from a different race. This is a problem when it comes to eye witness testimony the suspect is a different racial group from the witness. In this case the conclusion must be made with extreme caution. This phenomena is known as "cross race identification bias"
Bartlett was the first to recognize that memory can be seen as a reconstructive process, therefore the information that we have already shared effects the remembering of other events. Our schemes provide us with preconceived expectations. They can lead to significant distortions in our memory processes; because they have a powerful effect on the way in which memories of events are encoded (Crooks & Stien, 1991). An example of is a study conducted by all Allport & Postman (1947), white participants were shown a picture of two men evidently exchanging argumentative expressions...