Exploration of the Other-Race Recognition Deficit

Wetmore, Stacy A.

Exploration of the Other-Race Recognition Deficit

dc.contributor.advisor	Gronlund, Dr. Scott
dc.contributor.author	Wetmore, Stacy A.
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Devenport, Dr. Lynn
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Mendoza, Dr. Jorge
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Song, Dr. Hairong
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Damphousse, Dr. Kelly
dc.date.accessioned	2015-05-04T15:25:54Z
dc.date.available	2015-05-04T15:25:54Z
dc.date.issued	2015-05
dc.date.manuscript	2015
dc.description.abstract	Existing research regarding the Other-Race Bias (ORB), a phenomenon in which faces of the same race are more accurately recognized than of another race, primarily focuses on when the recognition deficit occurs and not why it occurs. The current research was designed to investigate what processing components are responsible for the ORB through the use of a sequential sampling model, the EZ diffusion model. Accuracy and reaction time were jointly considered, in addition to traditional measures of performance, to evaluate recognition decisions made about same race and other race faces. Emotion and face orientation were also manipulated to differentiate what type of processing, configural or featural, is recruited. The results indicated that recognition differences occur because of the quality of information available in memory and not a response bias. Furthermore, the use of configural or featural processing may not be able to explain the differences in processing for SR and OR faces. Research needs to continue to seek explanations of the ORB.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11244/14557
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Other Race Recognition	en_US
dc.subject	Cognitive Modeling	en_US
dc.subject	EZ Diffusion Model	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Ph.D.	en_US
dc.title	Exploration of the Other-Race Recognition Deficit	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences	en_US
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