Spss Case Study

In today’s society, announcing one’s aversion towards people different from them is the fastest way receive ridicule. In general, society has progressed to a point where being xenophobic, racist, and sexist is socially unacceptable. Despite this progress, society still suffers from the effects of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Why is that? The answer has to do with the fact that while explicit expressions of these behaviors are seen as unacceptable, implicit associations still permeate our society. These associations lead to implicit bias. Implicit bias is readily becoming the most pervasive form of bias in our society. It contributes to both micro and macro-level inequalities, and raising awareness of implicit bias is crucial in order to suppress its effects on society. This paper will start with a discussion of what implicit bias is. This will be followed by a discussion of the effects of implicit bias. It will conclude with a discussion of how implicit bias can be combatted.

In Study 1,“Forty undergraduates (24 female, 16 male) at the University of Colorado at Boulder participated in this experiment in return for either $8 or partial credit toward a class requirement” (Correll, 1315). Study 2, was very similar, with another 44 participant, 33 females and 11 males. This time, the participant in this test will come back for incentive payment of ten dollars. This allows them to earn just a little more money, making a total of twenty dollars at the end of scoring the points in the game. With the increase in reward, this should also increase the personal interest rather drastically. Study 3 is actually the same things at Study 1, this was meant to be a gauge to measure the perception of the participants on the topic of social and cultural stereotypes. However, the point is to not include personal prejudice that relates to race. Last Study 4 is to truly see what scaling of bias for both African and white american

Racial prejudice toward minority groups has been a problem throughout all of history. While overt racism and prejudice may be diminished from the days of our dark past, covert racism is very much alive. Society loves to embellish on how far the country has come in the fight against racial prejudice by highlighting significant events such as having the first black president. Yet there are still too many instances of subtle racism. In 2011, there were almost 700,000 incidents of stop and frisk policing in New York. Nine out of ten of these incidents involved blacks or Hispanics, which is ridiculous because blacks make up less than a quarter of the New York Population (Bobo 2013). Prejudice causes unfair treatment to innocent people. Everyone should be treated the same and given the same amount of respect. Continuing the fight towards an unprejudiced world has so many benefits including making sure everyone feels safe and respected in society and the possibility to learn from other ethnic groups. A world without prejudice would be a much more effective world with more time spent on making life better for all instead of violence and hate. Government officials and psychologists are trying to advertise how being in contact with other ethnic groups has reduced prejudice. Many psychologists are already praising contact theory research for its contribution toward world peace and its efforts against prejudice (Dixon, Tropp, Durrheim, and Tredoux 2010). However, the two empirical

discusses the results of a Implicit Association Test which measures a persons automatic association between mental representation of objects in the memory. Nearly 88 percent of the white race who took the Implicit Association Test show inherent racial bias. They have found when white people carry a implicit racial bias that they subconsciously prefer white people over black people in areas such as employment and academic. People don't even realize that they have a subconscious biases against a certain race. Which can affect how they interact with them. America still has a problem with race, The Civil War ended many years ago but the war between races still exist . Once we acknowledge the truth behind inherent racial bias we can move towards

Research centers for the study of racial bias have developed experimental studies to help understand how race can, for instance, influence a police officer to shoot an unarmed suspect. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is one of the most commonly used tests for this study. IAT was developed by three scientists, Tony Greenwald (University of Washington), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), and Brian Nosek (University of Virginia) (“ProjectImplicit”). Their “Project Implicit” program was designed to identify our societal biases through the association of faces (black and white) with words (good and bad). This program uses a scoring algorithm that can identify those who are faking the test with approximately 75% accuracy (Cvencek et al.).

By visiting the website called Project Implicit, I was able to take part in a study by participating in an online implicit association test otherwise known as IAT. This specific IAT asks participants to make a distinction between faces of people who are young and old. According to this website, the results for this specific test usually indicate that Americans prefer the faces of young people rather than old. After personally completing this IAT, my data suggest that I strongly prefer the faces of young people over old people.

Behavior is best defined as the unique behaviors, emotions and thought processes of an individual including the way that he or she interacts with others. While much of behavior may be thought to be innate, there are also external factors that can impact an individual's behavior. These factors have diversity and demographic characteristics; four of these factors will be discussed in this paper and the impact each has on individuals will be shown. Religion, personality traits, age and gender are thought to have the greatest impacts and therefore providing the best opportunity for discussion.

No matter who you are or what part of the world you are from implicit bias are a constant issue in society. These tendencies typically stem from structural injustice, implicit bias, and personal discretion. Structural injustice is when a category of people are associated with an insufficient status when comparing to other groups of people engaging in the same actions. Implicit bias are stances and stereotypes that affect our comprehension, actions and decisions held by our unconscious manner. These bias are involuntarily and are done without individuals awareness or intentional control. Everyone is exposed to these biases at a young age through the media, parents, and teachers. Each individual holds possession of implicit bias whether they

For the Race Implicit Bias Test, my results were that I have a moderate automatic preference for White people over Black people. When receiving those results, they really didn’t surprise me. I was adopted by white parents when I was a baby and all my relatives, except my brother, are also white. Growing up with white parents and an all-white extended family, I never really had opportunities to associate with black adults. I did have black and white friends when I was little, but when your little you don’t think about your friend’s race or identify them as a race. The reason I have a moderate automatic preference for White people over Black people is probably because with having an all-white family

UCM: CPSW did a home visit for Lance and Ashley. Both children were outside playing with their bicycle. Ashley seemed to be engaged little more than Lance during the visit. Both stated that they are excited that school will start soon for them. The foster parent ( Ms. Dawn) stated that Lance still sees his therapy and it seems to help him with his aggressive behavior at the day care. Ashley was standing next to the CP and quietly listening to the conversation. Ms. Dawn asked Ashley if she can go and play while grownups are talking. Very quickly Ashley got upset and started screaming. Ms. Dawn tried to help Ashley to calm down and it escalated more. CP gave little time Ms. Dawn so she can help Ashley to calm down. Shortly after the screaming

Part of the presentation that described what implicit racial bias is, how it is measured, and how it influences everyday interactions. All participants viewed this presentation but only intervention group participants were provided with strategies and group sessions aimed to help minimize implicit racial bias.

The exercise required to be complete this week consisted of taking two different tests measuring implicit attitudes and beliefs from the Project Implicit website. The first test I completed was Race ('Black - White' IAT), This IAT tests the ability to distinguish faces of European and African origin. This test checks indications that most Americans have an automatic preference for white over black. The second test was Gender – Career, This IAT often reveals a relative link between family and females and between career and males. After completing the test the assignment was to pick the first assignment and write about the experience experienced on that test.

Founded in 1989,“Project Implicit” is a research study conducted by Harvard, Virginia and Washington State University that examines implicit biases of all kinds. The main study that was examined was the testing of preference towards blacks and whites. The hypothesis was that a majority of Americans had an automatic preference over whites than blacks. The test was implemented by assigning negative and positive words to each (race). A control group would then be tested on how quickly they respond to those negative or positive associations when faced with either white or black faces. It was found that individuals readily associate positive stereotypes and attributes with whites rather than other races, particularly

I think I see more implicit valuing being done. This could be in the form of using stereotypes of social groups when it comes to dealing with parents. I have heard teachers talking about parents and placing them in stereotypes before getting to know them. An example would be “oh yeah my new student’s parents just moved into Shadow Brook”. This is another way of saying they are poor, because that area is low

The reaction time (RT) of students was measured in the experiment to determine whether light or sound stimulus initiates a quicker response time. The question of whether or not RT was related to movement time (MT) was also challenged. Each student performed two test in random order; one testing the reaction time of a red light stimulus, or visual reaction time (VRT); and the other testing the reaction time of a “beeping” sound stimulus, or auditory reaction time (ART). The student completed the VRT trial by simply receiving the stimulus and pressing a button. The student placing and holding their hand on a button starts the ART trial. Once the student receives the stimulus (beep) they press the adjacent button as fast as they can. The ART trial does not only include the data of the RT, but also the data from the MT. Having previous knowledge that light travels faster than sound; one can predict that VRT is faster than ART. The prediction that MT is independent upon RT can be made with the thought that there are so many opposing variables that could affect the MT of an individual unrelated RT such as old age