intro to Implicit Bias Flashcards
What does cultural diversity include?
- race
- sex
- ethnicity
- culture
- ability
- disability
- socioeconomic status
- talents
- language
- religion
- spiritual practices
- sexual orientation
- gender identity
- geographic region
- age
- country of origin
- life experiences
prejudice
- a negative attitude toward a group and its individual members
- commonly thought to involve emotions similar to dislike and even hate, but it can also stem from other negative emotions like anger, fear, disgust, pity, and jealousy
- even positive emotions can cause prejudice, like pride or admiration
- emotions
stereotypes
- the socially shared beliefs about a group and its individual members
- Dr. Wright talked about how we are constantly collecting and storing “schemas” of information about objects, places, events, and people
- -> stereotypes represent the schemas of information we collect and store about a group of people
discrimination
- negative behavior directed toward a group and its individual members
- acts of discrimination can include overt aggression meant to harm someone physically or psychologically, but most acts of discrimination, especially as they occur in medicine, are subtle
racism/sexism/ageism
the practice of discrimination based on racial/gender/age differences
social stigma
- study of how people cope with being the target of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination:
– members of stigmatized groups can feel
stereotype threat
- refers to the risk of confirming negative stereotypes about an individual’s racial, ethnic, gender, or cultural group
What are the four steps of how intergroup bias operates?
1 - categorization of people into groups
2 - activation of stereotypes about the group
3 - stereotypes can elicit attitudes and specific emotional responses, like anger or fear
4 - discrimination towards members of stigmatized group
How does categorization play a role in the operation of intergroup bias?
- categorization processes involve chunking information into meaningful groups or categories based on attributes of the information
- when presented with a stimulus, we are good at determining quickly how it fits into our pre-existing schemas, based on its similarities and dissimilarities to our existing knowledge structures
- categorization processes help us make sense of the world quickly and efficiently, but they often lead to the next step in the process of intergroup bias: activation of stereotypes about the group
Moreso in step 2 (activation of stereotypes), how does categorization play a role in the operation of intergroup bias?
once we categorize an individual as a member of a group, if we have stereotypes about the group, those beliefs can become prevalent in our thinking
Stereotypes typically tell you what two things?
- Does this patient intend to cooperate or not?
- Are they going to enact their good or ill intentions?
What are the two factors int he stereotype content model?
- warmth
- competence
What are the four physiological responses to specific groups of patients based on the perceptions of warmth and competence?
- high warmth/low competence
- high warmth/high competence
- low warmth/low competence
- low warmth/high competence
high warmth/low competence
- white immigrants, elderly, disabled, effeminate gay men, housewives
Prejudice: emotions of pity, sympathy
Discrimination: active help/protect or passive harm/neglect behaviors
high warmth/high competence
- middle class whites, Christians, Canadians, 3rd gen. immigrants, closeted gay men
- Prejudice: emotions of pride, admiration
- Discrimination: active help/protect or passive help/association behaviors
