Everyday bias

Question 1

Students were tested for their reactions to people of different weights using the __________ test, a computer based testing system.

Answer 1

IAT (Implicit Association Test)

Question 2

Physicians with a normal _________ are more frequently reported discussing weight loss with patients than did overweight or obese physicians

Answer 2

BMI

Question 3

United States, the quintessential _______________ a country in which virtually every person who is not of Native America origin comes from an immigrant heritage, anti-immigrant seal is at it’s highest level in generations

Answer 3

“Nation of immigrants”

Question 4

True or False: All human beings have bias, possessing bias is part and parcel of being human.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or False: To be biased is almost as normal as breathing.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or False: The fact that somebody exhibits bias unconsciously does not change the impact of the behavior.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Interviews are subject to many unconscious biases based on any number of extraneous factors relating to the candidate being interviewed, the __________ and the ___________ in which the interview is being conducted

Answer 7

Interviewer

Environment

Question 8

Students interviewed on _______ days tend to get lower ratings in their interviews that students on ________ days.

Answer 8

Rainy

Sunny

Question 9

What we react to, are influenced by, and what we see or don’t see, are all determined by reactions that happen deep within our _______.

Answer 9

psyche

Question 10

The comedian _______ built a whole career in the 1960s and 70s upon the punch line “the devil man me do it.”

Answer 10

Flip Wilson

Question 11

True or False: Unconscious bias comes from social stereotypes, attitudes, opinions and stigma we form about certain groups of people outside of our own conscious awareness.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

______ group- is the dominant or majority culture in a particular circumstance.

Answer 12

In

Question 13

We are programmed to notice the potential _______ before we notice “friend.”

Answer 13

Threat

Question 14

Cuddy, Fiske and Glick identified two forms of bias which are:

Answer 14

Warmth

Competence

Question 15

Do you consider the person likeable and is it someone you would feel comfortable being around is an example of what kind of bias?

Answer 15

Warmth

Question 16

If someone is classified as capable, skillful, intelligent and confident they would be considered what type of bias?

Answer 16

Competence

Question 17

Plato described love as_____________.

Answer 17

Divine madness

Question 18

_________________ is the part of the prefrontal cortex that processes risk and fear. It plays a major role in managing our emotional responses and decision making.

Answer 18

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Question 19

Often our first mental reaction comes from the ______________.

Answer 19

Amygdala

Question 20

The _______________ is the most primary part of the brain.

Answer 20

Amygdala

Question 21

There are two amygdalae in a normal human brain, each located within the ___________ lobes

Answer 21

Temporal

Question 22

_________________ complex set of structures in the brain that control various important functions including emotion, long-term memory and behavior.

Answer 22

Limbic system

Question 23

The amygdala is sensitive to ___________.

Answer 23

Fear

Question 24

The _____________ scans what we are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, or sensing with a particular sensitivity to circumstances or people that might be threatening.

Answer 24

amygdala

Question 25

We are exposed to as many as __________ sensory triggers at any one time, yet we can only absorb 40 to 50.

Answer 25

11 million

Question 26

The __________ processes the information, searches the data-base of memories to identify the catalyzing person object, or circumstance and figures out what it is.

Answer 26

Hippocampus

Question 27

The _____________ serves as a traffic control system, which sends signals through the cingulate gurus and then the anterior cingulate cortex and tells the body how to respond.

Answer 27

Hypothalamus

Question 28

Babies demonstrate preference for people of their own race when they are as little as ________ months old.

Answer 28

3

Question 29

_____________ fear of “the other” that we see (anti-immigration).

Answer 29

Xenophobia

Question 30

____________ biology of behavior

Answer 30

Ethology

Question 31

______________ is the ability to attribute beliefs, intentions, wants, and knowledge to others and to understand when others have beliefs that are the same or different from our own.

Answer 31

Theory of mind

Question 32

___________ relies more on the sensorimotor cortices as well as the limbic system.

Answer 32

Empathy

Question 33

In _____ Abraham Maslow explored this notion when he published his now history paper, “A theory of human motivation.”

Answer 33

1943

Question 34

_________________ suggests there are 5 levels of human needs that human beings strive for, and that it is difficult if not impossible for us to achieve one level without being satisfied that the one before it has been achieved.

Answer 34

Maslow’s Hierarchy

Question 35

_____________ level refers to out physiological needs such as breathing, food, water, sleep, sex

Answer 35

Bottom

Question 36

Social triggers activity in the same region of the brain associated with ______________.

Answer 36

Physical pain

Question 37

Edward Tronick set up a situation in which parents were videotaped interacting with their children in normal ways, including talking, laughing, and playing. The parent was asked to freeze their facial expression and not react to the child. The child looked confused then tried to do whatever they could to get a reaction from the parent. What experiment is this?

Answer 37

Still Face Experiment

Question 38

The _________________ is the ability to formulate and use language, our sensory perceptions and our more conscious thinking which takes place in the prefrontal neocortex.

Answer 38

System two thinking or slow brain

Question 39

True or False: It takes far more energy to think consciously more blood flow and more glucose

Answer 39

True

Question 40

Our capacity to “see ourselves in action” almost always occurs in the _____________.

Answer 40

Prefrontal neocortex

Question 41

The ______________ helps consolidate information from short-term to long-term memory

Answer 41

Hippocampus

Question 42

_______________ helps us spread make decisions about things that we have been exposed to and enables us to “spread values across memories”

Answer 42

Hippocampus

Question 43

Jeff Hawkins believed that the neocortex connects with the hippocampus and the _________, which regulates consciousness and alertness, and matches what is being seen to what has been seen before in order to predict what it will mean for the future

Answer 43

Thalamus

Question 44

Every human being has a personality structure that is made of three basic parts (list 3):

Answer 44

ID Ego Superego

Question 45

___________ is our more impulsive, emotional function. It does have much in the way of values and standards, but much more in the way of wants and needs

Answer 45

ID

Question 46

_________ is the the civilizing facet of the personality structure, which “controls” the ID through various reminders of the book of rules that we have picked up during life

Answer 46

Superego

Question 47

_____________ has to manage between the conflicting voices of the ID and superego

Answer 47

Ego

Question 48

______________ or ______________-a mental process through which we selectively see some things but not others, depending upon our point of focus,or what we happen to be focusing on at a particular time

Answer 48

Selective attention or in attentional blindness

Question 49

Police officers spot potential criminal behavior in the midst of a crowd of thousands because their brains pick up on small_________________ that they have come to recognize as those related to criminals.

Answer 49

behavioral traits

Question 50

______________ blindness accounts for why certain diversity related behaviors might be obvious to some people and completely invisible to others

Answer 50

Selective attention/inattentional

Question 51

In _______ in-attentional blindness became an issue in a court case when Kenneth Conley, a boston police officer, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice

Answer 51

1995

Question 52

______________- the propensity to label people, ideas, or things based on our initial opinions

Answer 52

Diagnosis bias

Question 53

_______________- which is the tendency to sort and identify information based on prior experience or habit

Answer 53

Pattern recognition

Question 54

_________________- is a strong form of pattern recognition

Answer 54

Stereotyping

Question 55

_____________- is the inclination to imbue a person or thing with certain qualities based on initial perceived value

Answer 55

value attribution

Question 56

_______________- a tendency for people to gather information or respond to a circumstance in a way that confirms their already established beliefs or ideas

Answer 56

Confirmation bias

Question 57

_______________- is the implicit tendency to respond to something based on expectations created by a previous experience or association

Answer 57

Priming

Question 58

______________ or ____________- is the experience of anxiety or concern in a situation where a person has the potential to confirm a negative stereotype about their social group

Answer 58

Stereotype threat or internalized bias

Question 59

__________ or _____________- is the common tendency to rely too heavily or anchor on one trait or piece of information when making decisions

Answer 59

Anchoring bias or focalization

Question 60

______________ is definitely a core factor in all human relationships, one that operates at many different levels

Answer 60

Power

Question 61

______________- the ability to use positional force or dominance to get people to comply with your desire

Answer 61

Coercive Power

Question 62

___________-emerges when one has the ability to give another person things they want or to relieve people of things that they don’t want.

Answer 62

Reward Power

Question 63

_____________- this form of power comes from a real or perceived connection to some figure or figures of authority

Answer 63

Relational power

Question 64

________________- is the ability to mobilize or deny the mobilization of organizational, community or family resources even can have a huge influence over behavior and decision making

Answer 64

Resource control

Question 65

_______________- this kind of power comes with a real or perceived ability to provide expertise that is either limited or non-existent in a particular situation

Answer 65

Assumed or Demonstrated Expertise

Question 66

________________- is based on the access people have to inside information within an organization or a system

Answer 66

Informational power

Question 67

________________- people who generate power and influence simply by the force of their personalities

Answer 67

Personality power

Question 68

________________- small behaviors that may be slightly bothersome or even insignificant but they can make a larger impact than we realize, especially when they occur as part of a web of similar behaviors

Answer 68

Micro-behaviors

Question 69

People in ______________ positions may be unconsciously more susceptible to selfishness and reduced empathy, without ever realizing it

Answer 69

Power

Question 70

______________- or a hardening of the attitudes that not only accelerates righteousness, but creates an identification with our points of view that has those who believe otherwise appear to us as “the other” or “the enemy”

Answer 70

Psycho-sclerosis

Question 71

The ____________, the brains’s fear center, responds to information that threatens us.

Answer 71

Amygdala

Question 72

_____________- the capacity of the brain to form new neural connections that allow it to reorganize itself throughout our lives

Answer 72

Nueroplasticity

Question 73

what are the major areas of focus that can help us work our individual patterns of bias (6):

Answer 73

1. recognize that bias is a normal part of the human experience 2. Develop the capacity for self-observation 3. Practice constructive uncertainty 4. Explore awkwardness or discomfort 5. Engage with people in groups you may not know very well, or about who, you harbor bias 6. Get feedback and data

Question 74

_____________- is based on the notion that we unconsciously make associations much more quickly than we consciously make associations

Answer 74

The Stroop test

Question 75

_______________- which claims to be the first commercial online test of unconscious bias that reliably measures an individual’s risk of exhibiting biased behavior at work

Answer 75

ImplicitlyM

Question 76

____________________ is a steroid hormone that the human body releases during times of stress

Answer 76

Cortisol or hydrocortisone

Question 77

______________ combines with adrenaline to help create memories of shorter-term emotional events.

Answer 77

Cortisol

Question 78

Various _________ and meditation practices reduce the level of cortisol that is released into the body, quieting the nervous system response

Answer 78

Mindfulness

Question 79

What is the acronym of PAUSE?

Answer 79

P-pay attention to what’s is beneath judgement/assessments A-Acknowledge your own reactions, interpretations, judgements U-Understand other possible reactions, interpretations, judgements may be possible S-Search for the most constructive, empowering or productive wat to deal with the situation E-execute your action plan

Question 80

___________- can help us be more thoughtful and help disengage some ot the automaticity of our biases

Answer 80

PAUSE

Question 81

“The way we’ve always done them in the past” is an example of?

Answer 81

Status quo

Question 82

______________ can create a sense of disproportionality in some of ways we relate to people and circumstances around us.

Answer 82

Primacy bias

Question 83

_____________ occurs when we are drawn to deal with the most recent challenge rather than focusing on the big picture

Answer 83

Recency bias

Question 84

A ______________ is the small flap that is often on the edge of the rudder of a large ship or airplane.

Answer 84

Trim tab

Question 85

The _________________ is when Elliott Aronson found children with strongly enriched attitudes. He have groups of children tasks that required interdependency for the children to be successful. They couldn’t complete the jigsaw puzzle without working together.

Answer 85

Jigsaw classroom

Question 86

____________ people either overly positive or negative in our memory.

Answer 86

Halo/horn effect