bbias, prejudice and discrimination

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

a shared way of life for a
group of people, and is transmitted
from generation to generation by the
processes of socialization and
enculturation

Question 2

diversity

Answer 2

dimensions that make us different from one another

Question 3

intersectionailty

Answer 3

the ways in which systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation.

Question 4

how is race a social construct?

Answer 4

The human genome project found that there is no biological foundations to race and racial groups are more similar than we think
- race is not biologically determined

Question 5

what drives the social construction of race?

Answer 5

Policy drives the social construction of race and changes its definition over time

Question 6

aversice racism

Answer 6

a contemporary and subtle
form of prejudice that replaces oldfashioned/explicit forms of racism

Question 7

explicit attitudes are

Answer 7

conscious beliefs (aware)
- self report

Question 8

implicit attitudes are

Answer 8

unconscious beliefs (unaware)
- indirect self report such as the IAT

Question 9

why does bias occur?

Question 10

what are the characteristics
of implicit biases?

Question 11

how can bias be reduced?

Answer 11

• education and training
• Examine your own identities; accept other
  groups (multiculturalism)
• Focus on “we” rather than “us and them”
  (melting pot vs salad bowl)
• More exposure and interactions with different
  people (contact hypothesis)