Unconscious Bias Essay

Mid-Term Exam 2016 The following are my written responses to the denoted questions for my mid-term exam in Professional Issues. Question 1: Here I will define “critical thinking” and discuss the impact of critical thinking by a physical therapist on “quality” and “value”, which are components of the updated vision 2020. Critical thinking is a purposefully refined and elevated mode of thinking wherein an individual asserts control over their own biases and innate tendencies, approaches…

be the mythical one. Myth turns into truth, and not many can capture the essence that myth must not be regarded as the ultimate truth. Likewise, those who create the myth form it with bias. These are the rulers who determine the ultimate faith of a society. They form the ideologies,…

The article “Capitalism vs. the Climate” was written by Naomi Klein about climate change and its solutions in relation to the economy as well as the political reactions to such solutions. Her article mainly revolves around the premise that climate change deniers are right about one thing, that in order to fix climate change, drastic changes in the modern economic models are needed. To this end, she makes a good, albeit flawed argument, as although she does provide a plethora of sources for her…

Communication can be a difficult barrier to cross when guilt or blame is involved. I’m sure we all have stories we recall as children where we tried to squirm our way out of trouble. As parents or babysitters we usually observe the smaller things to determine the larger picture since it may be difficult to determine what truly happened from bystanders or children. And at times it may be easier to determine what happened based off of post incident behavior rather than personal narratives. The…

something strictly a Direct Cinema film. Is it something that attempts to be unbiased by showing individual moments that aren’t affected by the camera, or is it something that encapsulates a specific emotion in a specific time and place with as little bias as possible? The technique of it all is very much up to the filmmaker’s style and I think that is good because it gives a certain freedom to the filmmaking…

approximately 12% of the population, as stated in the Henrich article. The implications for studies which focus on one type of participants can lead research to only be relevant in one part of the world. In doing this, we limit ourselves and create a bias towards what is expected of people from other cultures. These biases can especially translate into forms of discrimination. For example, if children are taught a specific way of solving problems at school, usually analytical problem solving in…

decision.1 These biases are seen in several spheres of life. Two that I will discuss are social and individual. Social biases are ones that involve aspects of everyday life. An example is hindsight bias, or when you believe you knew something along even though you did not. An individual bias is a bias that you hold against an individual group. These are typically implicit biases, subconscious opinions that come from cognitive processes. An example of this is an implicit stereotype against…

The role of women in European society was they were to be the household doing women like things, bear children and many would say that women were the opposite of men in every way and were not to have men like qualities and should to be very matronly and do things they believe a woman should do. There are many different types of views of women and some humanist views were from people such as Baldassare Castiglione and Raphael who was a painter. Castiglione was a humanist scholar and diplomat…

Muslims of Australia has been saying that ‘as a result of media bias, they are vilified in society as “terrorists”, and discriminated in the workplace’ (Kabir, 2006). As many other countries around the world wanting to strive, Australia is also working on being a country where it is an ideal for multicultural people…

Many news sources covered gun violence and potential gun policies in the wake of the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon. Each news outlet that covered the issue did it in a slightly different way, and in many cases with some bias. This bias can be caused by a variety of factors, such as the outlet’s target audience, who sponsors the outlet, and even the author’s socioeconomic background. The Washington Post is one of the most well respected news sources in world on both the Internet…