The tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races is called?

• A. Other-Race Effect
• B. Ingroup
• C. Aggression
• D. Frustration-Aggression Principle

Answer: (A)

This is the other-race effect in face recognition. It describes how people tend to recognize and recall faces from their own racial group more accurately than faces from other racial groups. The effect arises because we have far more experience with own-race faces, which leads to more finely tuned perceptual processing—we become experts at noticing subtle differences within that group and process faces more holistically. Exposure shapes our perceptual abilities, and social-cognitive factors like how we categorize people by race can also influence how we encode and remember faces. The other options aren’t about memory for faces by race; they refer to group identity or different kinds of aggression, which don’t explain this specific memory bias.