Core studies summary - Langer & Rodin (1976) Aims and context (Put aims of study & background history): Aim: To see whether being given greater personal choice & personal responsibility had a positive effect on older people living in a residential home. To see also if being given greater choice in a care home would affect their alertness & activity. Langer & Rodin aimed to investigate the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and choice in a group of nursing home patients. Specifically
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Response to Howard Zinn article History is something we constantly refer to progress ourselves as humans‚ we learn from our mistakes and continue to strive from our successes. But who is to say what is a horrible mistake or a courageous act of valor? That which was documented about what happened so long ago‚ was done by a person who spread the story or wrote it down from their perspective. Howard Zinn’s argument that there is no
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Readings: How ethical are you? Four types of bias * Implicit prejudice(bias that favours majority) bias that emerges from unconscious beliefs‚ because people tend to associate things that commonly go together and expect them to inevitably coexist (thunder and rain). Implicit prejudice arises from the ordinary and unconscious tendency to make associations‚ but this is not conscious forms of prejudice‚ such as overt racism/ this is problem is inherent * In-group favoritismbias that favours
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contrast the roles of mediator and advocate by describing the power limitations of each role‚ discuss under what circumstances an advocate is used during mediation‚ and which role is most critical to problem solving. The team will discuss the mediator bias‚ limitations of the mediator‚ scope of power‚ conflict of interest‚ confidentiality‚ mediator neutrality and impartially. ~”The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”~(Mahatma Ghandi‚ 1869-1948). Power Limitations
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families life. Through “American History X”‚ the viewer is exposed to many social psychological principles including racism‚ aggression‚ violence‚ conformity/social influence‚ stereotyping‚ prejudice and conformation bias just to name a few. Most frequently I saw in many scenes conformation bias and stereotyping being implemented. Stereotyping is defined as a thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things‚ but that belief may or may not accurately reflect
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An Individual Flaw Because of the nature of literature‚ books are imperfect. Readers travel to a convenient‚ simplified world that appears to clarify human experience‚ but ends up muddling story with the author’s prejudice and bias. People have a limited capacity to understand a lived experience that is not their own. Since books are a form of simplified‚ convenient reality‚ it is important to recognize all-encompassing structures‚ like literature‚ that synthesize the human experience and expose
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everyone else. Also‚ from imperialism came economic success for both the oppressors and the oppressed. This can be proved by documents 1‚ 2‚ and 5. Parker T. Moore‚ a man studying the effects of imperialism writes document 1 and there seems to be no bias because he is just stating faces. He brings up the fact that imperialism is necessary for the economy of a certain area
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are better than others : not biased 1: free from bias; especially : free from all prejudice and favoritism : eminently fair 2: having an expected value equal to a population parameter being estimated (Webster) Hidden Bias Tests measure unconscious‚ or automatic‚ biases. Willingness to examine your own possible biases is an important step in understanding the roots of stereotypes and prejudice in our society. Hidden Bias Tests measure unconscious‚ or automatic‚ biases. Your
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Interpretation that Haig was a Butcher: Source B2 was written by P. Smith a private in the 1st Border Regiment during the Somme describes the battle from how he saw it during the battle. He described it as “pure bloody murder” on the battlefield and he goes on to say in the source how Haig should have been “hung‚ drawn and quartered for what he did at the Somme”. He also goes on later to see how “The cream of British manhood was shattered in less than 6 hours”. Source B2 is reliable because of
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Institutional bias involves a discussion that covers prejudiced practices occurring on the institutional level of examination‚ functioning on mechanisms that exceed prejudice and discrimination on an individual level. There may be a temptation to draw a conclusion that the discrimination occurring against a particular group would be eradicated if “Negative associations‚ stereotypes‚ and prejudices toward that outgroup were eliminated‚ but even in ideal settings where individuals hold no stereotypes
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