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Higher cognitive abilities may come with a pitfall - a susceptibility to judging people based on ste...
Higher cognitive abilities may come with a pitfall - a susceptibility to judging people based on stereotypes. A new study from New York University l that highly intelligent people are quicker to learn stereotypes and base decisions off them. It may come down 2 someone's ability to detect and encode patterns. It's not all bad news 3 , as these high- intelligence people are likely to quickly update and 4 their ideas on stereotypes when introduced to new information.
For the study, 1,257 individuals were shown a(n) 5 0f computerized male faces that were?paired?with?a?description?of?past?behavior,?either?positive?or?negative?However,?the researchers?manipulated?avatar?faces??6??people?with?noses?that?were?purposely?wider?were associated?with?negative?traits,??7?.?those?with?more?narrow?noses?were?associated?with positive?traits.???8???this,?individuals?were?asked?to?complete?a?task?in???9???they?had?to trust?an?individual?online?who?was?represented?by?an?avatar?face???10???those?the?volunteers were?shown?in?the?trait?association?task.?Individuals?wh0???11???higher?on?pattern?detection, 12???0f?higher?intelligence,?were?also?more?likely?to?associate?wider?noses?with?negative traits,?and?were???13???likely?to?trust?wide-nosed?avatars?in?the?final?task.
Pattern?detection?is?an?essential?part?of?human?intelligence,?and?is?one?of?the?main features?that?helped?our?brains?evolve???14???what?they?are?today,?but?the?skill?has?its?limits. "Finding?that?higher?pattern?detection?ability???15???people?at?greater?risk?to?detect?and?apply stereotypes,?but?also?to?reverse?them,?implicates?this?ability?as?a?cognitive?mechanism???16 stereotyping,"?added?co-author?Jonathan?Freeman?in?a?statement.
While stereotypes can be useful and a way to avoid danger, 17 associating police officers with safety or gunmen with danger, there are pitfalls t0 18 people based on a generally held idea. Stereotypes cause you to judge people 19 . knowing anything about them - we wouldn't want others to do that to us, 20 why not afford them the same Courtesy
For the study, 1,257 individuals were shown a(n) 5 0f computerized male faces that were?paired?with?a?description?of?past?behavior,?either?positive?or?negative?However,?the researchers?manipulated?avatar?faces??6??people?with?noses?that?were?purposely?wider?were associated?with?negative?traits,??7?.?those?with?more?narrow?noses?were?associated?with positive?traits.???8???this,?individuals?were?asked?to?complete?a?task?in???9???they?had?to trust?an?individual?online?who?was?represented?by?an?avatar?face???10???those?the?volunteers were?shown?in?the?trait?association?task.?Individuals?wh0???11???higher?on?pattern?detection, 12???0f?higher?intelligence,?were?also?more?likely?to?associate?wider?noses?with?negative traits,?and?were???13???likely?to?trust?wide-nosed?avatars?in?the?final?task.
Pattern?detection?is?an?essential?part?of?human?intelligence,?and?is?one?of?the?main features?that?helped?our?brains?evolve???14???what?they?are?today,?but?the?skill?has?its?limits. "Finding?that?higher?pattern?detection?ability???15???people?at?greater?risk?to?detect?and?apply stereotypes,?but?also?to?reverse?them,?implicates?this?ability?as?a?cognitive?mechanism???16 stereotyping,"?added?co-author?Jonathan?Freeman?in?a?statement.
While stereotypes can be useful and a way to avoid danger, 17 associating police officers with safety or gunmen with danger, there are pitfalls t0 18 people based on a generally held idea. Stereotypes cause you to judge people 19 . knowing anything about them - we wouldn't want others to do that to us, 20 why not afford them the same Courtesy
参考答案: B
参考解析: [精解]本题考查上下文语义十固定搭配。由上文研究结论“高智商人群易基于模式化思维评判人”到空格句“他们对模式的察觉和编码能力”可推知,空格上下文可能为“指出现象——说明原因”的逻辑,选项中能与come down连用,表示原因的介词只有B.L。