I work in the care industry and have clients and honour other people’s religion or non religion that I look after that have had a totally different upbringing that myself. Some of these clients have dementia, I was raised in a different country with different beliefs. I had a traumatic upbringing but I cannot ever let my clients know about what my beliefs and life experiences are about. I through my experience with working in this environment have learnt that I have had to research other religions and beliefs and have learnt to respect all people and their beliefs. Prayers are a daily thing for me even though this was not taught to me in my earlier years. Religion affects people in many different ways mainly because we all come from different backgrounds and were all taught differently. It is therefore very important to respect and honour their personal beliefs. Some want to go to church on Sundays and others do not want to speak about church at all and I must respect the fact that they do not want to speak about anything about the Church. It is part of the work that I do to make sure my clients are happy and therefore am conscious at all times that they feel comfortable about anything they want to talk to me about.…
Cognitive process influence prejudice through stereotyping, which cause prejudice. This can be a result of the normal ways in which we simplify and organize the world. Stereotypes are the social scripts we…
Prejudice is where an individual forms an opinion on someone else before becoming aware of the relevant factors involved. The word is often used to refer to usually unfair judgments towards people or a person because of gender, social class, age, disability or race/ethnicity. In this case, it refers to a positive or negative assessment of another person based on their social group. Gordon Allport (1954) defined prejudice as a "feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience". Social cognition aims to understand social psychological phenomena (such as stereotyping…
Stereotyping – when an individual has preconceptions about another individual, it makes it difficult for the individual not to view the other individual’s communication with prejudice.…
| * This a form of discrimination where people make unfound assumptions about a group of people based on something they heard or witnessed in the past…
Bias is a preconception about members of a particular group and includes gender and age bias. TRUE…
No one in this world is truly free of prejudice; ergo, I am not free of prejudice. Society labels and categorizes people, and from those labels stereotypes are born. In all honesty, I am sure that implicit bias is what causes me to be prejudice. In all honesty, I believe that implicit bias is the most important cause of prejudice in most people; the book describes implicit bias under the category of a mental shortcut. If implicit bias is the sum of generations of stereotypes, and learned behavior, than it must be the most important factor.…
In order to prepare for this assignment, I was required to do some research about implicit attitudes, stereotypes, and prejudice. I also had to open my mind and be prepared to learn some things about my own personal hidden biases. Before I took the Implicit Attitude Test, I learned the definitions of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Stereotypes are defined individuals’ beliefs that members of a group share particular attributes and negative stereotypes can provide the basis for prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice is a having a negative attitude towards member of a group. Discrimination is simply aggression towards people because they are members of a specific group. Armed with this information, I began my journey into finding out my own personal hidden biases.…
When you ask yourself whether you are bias in regards to a certain thing, person, or group in comparison to another you may respond with a “No”. While you believe this to be true, there is actually something called implicit bias that you are unaware of and this could be contradicting to what you believe. An individual’s implicit bias can affect their understanding, their actions, and the decisions they make in an unconscious manner. This means that you are completely unaware of your own implicit bias and you have no intentional control over it. Throughout life we accumulate associations at the subconscious level and these associations cause us to have attitudes towards people or groups based on certain traits like race, gender, age, and ethnicity. Implicit biases are unknown biases and unlike explicit biases, they are unable to be accessed through introspection. So how is it that one can…
I truly enjoyed exploring the continence of your informative post. It is true as you stated that “Cognitive dissonance is the inability to maintain cognitive consistency because of two thoughts.” When an individual is squeezed in the middle of two different thoughts opposing each other, he then becomes confused, and may undertake a state of discomfort. At that point his internal and external body factors become most important to control his personality. Most of the time individuals are pretty consistent with what they believe, therefore ignoring the real sense of the situation. This can be justified by whether though the individual is conscious or unconscious of his behavior, attitude, belief, or habit. For instance, an individual dives to hunt crocodiles in the swamp knows that the crocodiles are dangerous and would resist to fall under captivity, the same individual hunt Anaconda snakes for their skin value while he is aware that it is a dangerous business because Anaconda would also resist captivity and perhaps kill the hunter. When you match both situations which are habits to the concerned individual, you remark that either habits or beliefs conflict each other; evidently they are not related to each other, therefore one of them may become dissonant with the other. Hence, relying on the cognitive dissonance theory Cognition dissonance will happen.…
A social bias is a prejudice attitude aimed at a particular race, culture, ethnic group, religion, or sexual orientation. People with limited vision often form negative opinions toward a group of people without knowing who they are. People have to be careful with the thought process because it can lead him or her to make a judgmental statement toward an individual, or a group of individuals, without the person realizing that the statement or comment was prejudicial. In this paper the concept of social biases, a definition of the concept of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination shall be provided. An explanation of the differences between subtle and blatant biases, a brief description of the impact of biases on the lives of individuals, and finally two strategies that an individual can use to overcome social biases will be discussed.…
A cognition can be considered as a belief (for example, if you like watching movies then this is a cognition). The cognitive dissonance theory states that if there is a discrepancy – an aversive emotional state – between our beliefs and behaviors, we are likely to experience inconsistency between these two cognitions. For instance, if you smoke, despite knowing that smoking is harmful, then this may result in cognitive dissonance. Furthermore, the college students who put themselves through hazing to join a fraternity could be another example. These students also most likely to experience cognitive dissonance. I noticed (while listening to the lecture and reading the textbook) that cognitive dissonance can have a powerful influence (more powerful…
Confirmation bias often fuels discrimination, due to only searching the negative things about a person, race, or group. An example of this in today’s society would be the situation with gay rights. Many people will reject even the idea of gay marriage, just because it contradicts their beliefs. They completely ignore the facts of how the rights can improve people’s lives, and will only value the information on why it’s bad. This one sided view, also known as…
Cognitive biases are described as errors in one’s judgements caused by the filtering of information through his/her personal preferences, memories, and experiences. Correspondingly, racism is described as a prejudice or discrimination against someone of a different race because of one’s personal beliefs and preferences. In this paper, I will be discussing two specific cognitive biases that I believe play the biggest role in the development of racism: the confirmation bias and the availability heuristic. I want to explicitly state that there are many other aspects that play into racism, but I personally believe that these biases are the two most prevalent and obvious factors in this specific prejudice. After I’ve explained the two biases, I will begin to show the correlation between the biases and racism. I will use examples from my personal life to…
Political bias: “With one purpose only: to point out and make public the dishonesty, the downright villainy, of Boss Jim W. Gettys’ political machine—now in complete control of the government of this State!” His opinion of this groups’ work is judgmental.…