Unit 2- Week 3 Flashcards
a) what is racism?
b) what are 2 discussed forms of racism?
c) T/F: Racism only affects people’s mental health
a) racism is a systemic problem consisting of structures, policies, practices and norms that assign value and determine opportunities based on the colour of a person’s skin
b) interpersonal (between people) and structural (governments and policies)
c) F racism affects both mental and physical health
- at age ___ there is a 5 year age gap between blacks and whites
- the gap between _______ is larger than the racial gap
- black members of the class of 1970 had a death rate __x higher than the average class member
- every ___ minutes, a black person dies prematurely in the US
- age 25
- education
- 3x
- 7 minutes
what are 2 scales from the video that measure the impact of racism on health?
- major experiences of discrimination scale: being unfairly fired or stopped by police
- everyday discrimination scale: ways in which the dignity and respect of people who society does not value is chipped away on a daily basis. ex: treated will less curtesy, receive poor service in restaurants or stores, people acting like they are afraid
what are some examples of experiences people face from discrimination?
- being unfairly fired
- stopped by police
- less curtesy
- poor service
- people acting afraid
- poor medical treatment
- stress being in public
what is the everyday discrimination scale?
measures chronic and routine unfair treatment in everyday life
a) what are factors contributing to racial and ethnic disparities in health care?
b) identifying these factors allows us to _____ the impacts of racism on health
a) geographic location, language barrier, income and education level, lack of transportation, lack of health insurance, cultural barriers, care provider stereotyping
b) measure
the scale to measure racism captures the way in which the ______ and ______ of people who society does not value is chipped away on a daily basis
dignity and respect
- what is unconscious racism?
- unconscious racism is also referred to as _______. This is good for _______
- T/F: you have control over unconscious racism
- To identify unconscious racism, we must have a lens of _____ ______
- holding a negative stereotype of belief about a group in your unconscious mind based on previous connotations you have associated with these people. Therefore, you will treat a member of that group differently
- implicit bias, humility
- F it is an automatic process
- racial equity
- what is segregation?
- what are the 2 types that still exist in society?
- What is shocking about white and black neighbourhoods today?
- unfair separation of people based on the colour of their skin, background or abilities
- residential segregation = black and white people living in different neighbourhoods–> caused from history and has not been changed
institutional segregation = black and white people going to different institutions like healthcare, restaurants, work places etc. –> from history and has not changed - the worst rated white urban areas are still better than the average black neighbourhood
- what is dissent and how can we participate?
- What are 4 things we must dissent from?
- dissent means to begin holding an opinion that is against what we previously thought. So we as a society need to dissent against racism and negative stereotyping of others
- hatred, mistrust, apathy, indifference
what are engrained associations? give an example
engrained associations are things we associate with each other due to stereotyping and also because society’s toxic culture is so accustomed to it. An example would be associating black men with violence because we see it so much as plots in movies, and it is almost always headlines in the news
what is blind spot bias?
a mental bias where we can see bias in other people but not in ourselves. Calling someone a racist but having unconscious bias in the way you called them out for
Implicit bias is a(n) _______ that affects our understanding, actions and decisions unconsciously
a) opinion
b) thought
c) attitude
d) feeling
e) visual
c)
a) T/F: biases are never neutral
b) implicit bias affect ______, ________ and _______
c) T/F: implicit bias does not refer to the beliefs we hide and suppress so we appear non-biased
d) implicit bias is related to ______ bias and ___________ bias
a) F. biases can be positive, negative or neutral
b) decisions, perceptions and behaviours
c) T. although we implicitly hold these beliefs, we sometimes are not able to hide them
d) explicit bias and institutional bias
- What is not an example of an association?
a) night and day
b) black and white
c) fridge and plant
d) young and old
e) big and small - what are associations? what are they called in relation to discrimination
- what are the 3 A’s of implicit processing?
- c)
- when faced with incomplete information, we rely on our associative memory to fill in the gaps. called norms or stereotypes
- adaptive, automatic and associative
