Discuss the phenomenon of "stereotypic association," and provide an example of how this might impact a police officer's decision making
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Answer: The answer should include a discussion of this phenomenon, especially from the perspective of race, and how a police officer's beliefs about a particular race may lead to perceptual distortions based on stereotypical thinking. An example might be a white officer who sees a gun in a Black man's hand when there isn't one there because he holds a stereotype of Blacks as violent and aggressive.
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