Colorblind For years, African Americans have gathered to create a colorless society. Historical groups have tried to gain racial equality through riots, marches and often sacrificing their own lives. New generations have forgotten the true meaning of what it is to be colorblind. Alex Kotlowitz an award winning author on urban affairs appeared on New York Times for his article “Colorblind,” in which he addresses an issue that society is said to be colorblind, even though people still chose to believe their own myths which leads to division of race.…
Growing up going to public school in Texas there is one thing every child fears more than any potential monsters in their closets. The State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness or STAAR test is every kids worst nightmare. The STAAR test is three days of state testing that you seem to prepare for the entire year. The hardest test always seemed to be the English exam due to one very stressful section. The writing portion made me a nervous wreck.…
With the Lancaster Red-Green Test, both the red and green targets are linear, and goggles of red and green filters are worn by the patient, with the red filter worn over the right eye. An examiner project one of the flashlights. The patient is asked to superimpose a green line projected from his flashlight onto a red line projected on the test screen from the examiner's flashlight. Again, the examiner moves the projected line of red light until all nine diagnostic positions of gaze have been evaluated. Horizontal, vertical, and torsional deviations can be identified and quantified after the patient's responses are correlated to the examiner's target placement.…
James Wayne Popham’s article was a very in-depth one on why standardized testing are not fair for every child. One of the main arguments he made was that the scores continue to be increasingly important even though they are not proven to be sufficient in what they are doing. He says not one get should be depended on to show what students know and what teachers have taught. He also says that many educators don't have an idea of how much lies on these test. He said if standardized test scores look good, then schools look good and this is very deceptive.…
I decided to take the race test twice. The first time I took it, I only made the mistake of mixing some European American face with an African American face without paying attention to the categories. My result for the first was the Automatic preference for African american compared to European american. After I got this result, I believed this whole test was inaccurate because with just three mistakes you can not determine someones preference. So I decided to take it over again with no mistakes this time, just to see what my result maybe.…
The Most Dreadful Time of The Year It’s STAAR Testing season and students nor teachers are happy. The thought of sitting in a chair for 4 hours doesn’t send a feeling of gaiety through your body.…
Through the video True Colors and speaking with Dr. Hilton, in the United States there is still prominent racial discrimination and white privilege. Even though the video was made in the 1990s, the prejudice shown is still common in today’s society. This was reiterated by Dr. Hilton. He spoke about what his thoughts on racial differences and “fair” treatment. With many more similarities than differences, the two resources allowed for more recognition of what happens to someone of a different race in the United States today.…
True Colors Survey Review: My results were 8 orange, 14 gold, 11 blue, 17 green. Interestingly, I took this survey about 4 years ago and my results said I was a Blue-Orange person and for the most part the more recent results are more accurate of who I am today. Years ago, I used to be a more eccentric, outgoing, and extroverted person. Today I have matured and balanced it for the better in my opinion.…
The Stroop Effect is widely used in psychological assessments as a way to measure the selective attention and processing abilities of individuals, which include cognitive stimulation, planning, and decision-making in real life situations. The experiment, developed by John Ridley Stroop in 1935, consisted of tasks, in which subjects were to name the color with the word, whether they were matching or not. The time it took to name the colors between the matching color/word and mismatched color/word were different. The distraction in the daily activity described above and mismatching of the color and word create interferences that affect the way individuals respond to each situation.…
If I were to add a new colour to the crayola crayon box, I would add the color banana yellow. There aren't many yellows in a crayon box and you can draw creatures and things. One reason of why I would add the colour banana yellow is because in the crayola crayon box, there aren't that many yellow shades. In the crayola crayon box, the only yellow shades are yellow, yellow orange, and yellow green.…
Facing Challenges: The Story of My Black Tip Test A large part of human life is facing challenges and doing things that you feel with great conviction you cannot do. One of the most intimidating tasks I have ever faced was performing Retreating Dragon during my black tip test in Karate. From the sheer intricacy of the form, my absence of confidence as well as the actual test all play a role in the course of events. To begin with is the fact that Retreating Dragon is the most complex and challenging forms I have ever dealt with to date. One contributing factor to this is the amount of movement this form includes.…
Interference is a variable that interferes with the ability of the individual to appropriately respond to the stimulus presented. This idea of interference has been studied extensively by Stroop when he compared and contrasted reaction time of individuals responding verbally to different stimuli including naming a list of words in black on a paper, naming colored square, naming a list of words in color and naming the incongruent ink color of the words. (“Classics in the History of Psychology – Stroop (1935)”, Classics in the History of Psychology – Stroop (1935)) As…
A visual search experiment is an experiment in which an individual's reaction time is tested when finding a visual cue, like a green circle, and determining whether the visual cue is there or not. In the visual field, there also are other objects, called distractors, that aren't the desired visual cue. A subject is tested through two different techniques called a feature search and a conjunctive search. In a feature search, the visual cue would be shown, or possibly not shown, on the screen with distractors of a different color than the desired visual cue. In a conjunctive search, the subject must determine whether the visual cue is there or not there, but the distractors can be the same color of the desired visual cue.…
The STAAR test should not be used as a final exam in high school. Reason being if students did have to a STAAR test as their final exam, then their would be more conflicts. There are two things you have to realize and that is one test does not determine your intelligence and also that will be more likely for kids to go through depression. “Grades do not define intelligence” and that specific quote is honestly true. If test actually did determine intelligence, then age would define maturity, rumors would define who you are, etc.…
According to the Multicultural Guidelines by American Psychology Association, there were two studies that were conducted called the “Multicultural Approach” and the “Color Blind Approach”. The Color-Blind approach was conducted in order to “try to reduce inequities”, however; it failed because Psychologists found that “this type of approach was less effective than the Multicultural approach after they conducted numerous studies” because the information they found in regards to the Color-Blind study that the outcome was “negatively viewed and how this could possibly lead to segregation between ethnic groups again”. When it comes to the “Multicultural approach, it was more effective because this approach “concentrates on the acknowledgement of…