Young Children Quickly Begin to Recognize Attitudes and Emotions in the Faces

Multiple Choice

Young children quickly begin to recognize attitudes and emotions in the faces of others. Early on, they can differentiate people of their same ethnic background and read expressions of emotionality particular to that culture. The persistence of this ability, often to the detriment of reading unfamiliar expressions of emotion, is called _____.

A) the own-race effect
B) emotional blindness
C) prosopagnosia
D) prejudice