PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Shooting Of Amadou Diallo, Mahzarin Banaji

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1999 nyc killing of amadou diallo by nypd street crimes unit while looking for a rape suspect western african immigrant who a) did not know the meaning of freeze or b) was showing id. 4 officers shot 41 times, 19 times hitting diallo. Officers acquitted: 2007 robert driekanski (polish construction worker) was at vancouver. International airport with his mother, with no english. 10 hours, he was agitated while looking for his mother and threw a computer on the floor. Mahzarin banaji used brain imaging to study racial attitudes. White college students pictures were shown unfamiliar black and white faces and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) scanned the brains in the amygdala (detects threats) Not all students responded in fear to the unfamiliar black people only those who scores on the implicit association test (iat) showed negative attitudes towards blacks. Iat computer test measuring reaction times to assess indirectly if people associate negative or positive words with certain groups of people.

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