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    To begin‚ for the two tests‚ I chose to take the Race IAT and the Weapons IAT. Before I took the Implicit Bias Test‚ I believed that I would have a slight preference towards White Americans‚ and that Black Americans would be most associated with weapons. The Implicit Bias Test was made to reveal our unknown biases‚ including prejudice. Some people may not realize they are cognitively prejudice‚ as they believe in stereotypes that state all Black people are “aggressive‚” that they’re all in gangs

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    Kim Scott Gender Bias

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    Gender Bias “The Problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be‚ rather than recognizing how we are” the average full time weekly wage for a woman is 18.2% less than a man’s. Woman and Men have always been seen as unequal for many years.In both jobs and everyday life men and women are set apart by standards kept for many centuries. Both Genders should be treated equal because you should be defined by what you do‚ not your parts. On January 28th the grammys had their 60th showing of the

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    Maquella Kuhlmann Ms. Schlosser Aeneid Literary Analysis; Argumentative 01 Dec. 2015 Self-Serving Bias The textbook definition of self-serving bias (www.psychologytoday.com) is when people tend to attribute positive events to their own character‚ but they attribute negative events to external factors‚ so quite literally‚ self-serving bias is making oneself look good and blaming other factors. In Book 2 of the Aeneid‚ Virgil recounts the Battle of Troy from the Roman perspective while in Books

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    Paper #2- Representativeness Bias Throughout the meeting and hiring process‚ the selection of capable candidates frequently relies on producing a decision using intuitive judgment. Using heuristics in employee selection requires applying your common sense to select the top individual for the occupation‚ while sticking to local‚ state and federal rules for employment. Some companies employ hiring managers that have a little bit of a different idea on who to choose to hire. A large pool of all

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    IQ TEST RESEARCH A Research of the Reliability and Validity of the PSYGAT on Different Linguistic Backgrounds Abstract The issue of cultural bias in intelligence tests sparks debates every time the latter is created or administered‚ resulting to many researches into how the reliability and validity of an ability test may differ when assessed on groups from different cultural-linguistic backgrounds. The aim of this study is to test the reliability and validity of the PSYGAT Verbal IQ Test on

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    Actor Observer Bias Essay

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    PSY150 UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL BEHAVIOR TERM PROJECT Concept 1. Actor Observer Bias (Chapter 2) Actor observer bias is a type of bias in attribution process. In actor observer bias‚ people tend to interpret and react the same situation in different ways because of the position that they are in. As a result‚ they -as actors and observers- make different statements about the same situation. In fact‚ if a person is in the actor position‚ the attributions that s/he makes are based on the external factors

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    The justice system in today’s society is not bias. People today‚ just like to say that they are. If you have committed a crime white or black you will pay a price for it. The way I see it is‚ you get what you get no matter what race. People today‚ just want to believe what they see on tv. Which is clearly not true in some aspects of the news media. The news does not show how the whites are treated by police. The media only shows what they want you to see. If you look at the per capita for the united

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    opinion: 1) The candidate is female 2) The candidate is Hispanic 3) The candidate has been working at a competitor The representativeness heuristic may be applicable for item one and two. Perhaps the senior manager has a personal judgment (bias) toward a Hispanic woman ’s ’ ability to be successful as a marketing manager. This would fall in the A‚ B‚ C ’s of representativeness‚ specifically‚ conjunctive fallacy. Relating A (Hispanic) to B (female) to the candidates success or failure as marketing

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    Gender Bias and its Impact on Acculturation in America In many Asian societies‚ the male holds a dominant role in maintaining family and cultural values. This aspect seems to cause conflicts between the generations of Asian families here in the United States. The US is known for its permissiveness in self-determination amongst its people. Asians who had an American upbringing would strongly disagree with the views of those who are newly immigrated. These generational conflicts were evident by

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    Bias In Super Size Me

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    Bias: Bias is when a documentary has an inclination towards a particular view or opinion. It is important when creating a documentary that all opinions and views are recognised and explored in the film and that it doesn’t focus entirely on one side of the story. An example of a documentary that is biased is Super Size Me‚ directed by Morgan Spurlock. The documentary primarily focuses on the detrimental effects of fast food and it does not mention any positive effects it could have. The documentary

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