read Essentialist Thinking Predicts Decrements in Children's Memory for Racially Ambiguous Faces to answer these questions 1. What is the overall

read Essentialist Thinking Predicts Decrements in Children's Memory for Racially Ambiguous Faces to answer these questions

1.         What is the overall research question here? What is the specific hypothesis being tested in this research?

2.        What do the researchers gain here by studying their research question with children aged 4-9 years old, instead of just studying adults?

3.         How was "hypodescent"defined here? How was "own-race bias" defined here?

4.        Identify three main variables being examined in this research. Then, for each variable, identify the levels within the variable.

5.        Is this study a correlational or experimental research study? How did you know?

6.        What does "essentialist thinking" mean conceptually according to this paper? How was racial essentialism operationalized in this research? (Review conceptual variable vs. operational definition/operationalization means).

7.         Don't worry about the details of the numbers but see if you can get the gist of some of what was found from the Results section. Describe one result that directly addresses the main hypothesis being tested in the study. Did the data support the hypothesis?

8.        Briefly discuss a practical real-world implication of the research reported here. (There is no right or wrong answer here, but I'd like to see you demonstrate critical thinking about the potential usefulness of this research.

9.        What is a possible extension of this research you can think of? Briefly talk about a research question you can think of to extend this work. What do you predict? How can you examine this research question?