CDEN 705 FINAL EXAM WITH
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
What is implicit bias? - ✔✔Unconsciously held associations, belief, and attitudes
Does having implicit biases mean that you are necessarily prejudiced? - ✔✔No
What can lead to inaccurate or compromised clinical decisions and an erosion of
trust between health professionals and patients? - ✔✔Implicit bias
T/F: All implicit bias is negative and destructive. - ✔✔False
Is it possible to eradicate implicit bias? - ✔✔No
What is bias a result of? - ✔✔Neurological mechanisms and psychological
processes that are outside of conscious awareness
What are explicit biases? - ✔✔Prejudices that are intentional and controllable
,What is affinity bias? - ✔✔The tendency to 'warm up' to people who are like
yourself
What is the halo effect? - ✔✔The tendency to think that everything about a
person is good simply because your like them
What is perception bias? - ✔✔The tendency to believe one thing about a group of
people based on stereotypes and assumptions
What is confirmation bias? - ✔✔The tendency to seek to confirm your pre-
existing ideas and assumptions about a group of people
What is group think? - ✔✔The tendency to try too hard to fit into an existing
culture, mimicking others and holding back thoughts or opinions
What can group think result in? - ✔✔Loss of identity and lost creativity and
innovation
What is beauty bias? - ✔✔We think that the most attractive individual will be the
most successful
What is gender bias? - ✔✔The differential treatment or representation of men and
women based on stereotypes rather than real differences.
, Why does gender bias occur? - ✔✔We favor people that we can relate too
especially those of the same gender
What is the horns effect bias? - ✔✔Focusing on one particularly negative feature
about an individual, ignoring other qualities of the person
What is attribution bias? - ✔✔Thinking someone's success is luck but our own are
due to hard work or their error are due to poor capabilities and our errors to
external factors
What is a suggestion for overcoming implicit bias? - ✔✔Changing patient-
provider contact to a collaboration
T/F: Race is a social construct - ✔✔True
At its inception, what was race defined as? - ✔✔A natural or biological
differences indicated by physical features
What was the creation of race as a key system of classification for? -
✔✔Justification of hierarchies of humanity
T/F: race is backed by science - ✔✔False
T/F: science demonstrates that the differences within different groups are greater
than the differences between the "race" - ✔✔True
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
What is implicit bias? - ✔✔Unconsciously held associations, belief, and attitudes
Does having implicit biases mean that you are necessarily prejudiced? - ✔✔No
What can lead to inaccurate or compromised clinical decisions and an erosion of
trust between health professionals and patients? - ✔✔Implicit bias
T/F: All implicit bias is negative and destructive. - ✔✔False
Is it possible to eradicate implicit bias? - ✔✔No
What is bias a result of? - ✔✔Neurological mechanisms and psychological
processes that are outside of conscious awareness
What are explicit biases? - ✔✔Prejudices that are intentional and controllable
,What is affinity bias? - ✔✔The tendency to 'warm up' to people who are like
yourself
What is the halo effect? - ✔✔The tendency to think that everything about a
person is good simply because your like them
What is perception bias? - ✔✔The tendency to believe one thing about a group of
people based on stereotypes and assumptions
What is confirmation bias? - ✔✔The tendency to seek to confirm your pre-
existing ideas and assumptions about a group of people
What is group think? - ✔✔The tendency to try too hard to fit into an existing
culture, mimicking others and holding back thoughts or opinions
What can group think result in? - ✔✔Loss of identity and lost creativity and
innovation
What is beauty bias? - ✔✔We think that the most attractive individual will be the
most successful
What is gender bias? - ✔✔The differential treatment or representation of men and
women based on stereotypes rather than real differences.
, Why does gender bias occur? - ✔✔We favor people that we can relate too
especially those of the same gender
What is the horns effect bias? - ✔✔Focusing on one particularly negative feature
about an individual, ignoring other qualities of the person
What is attribution bias? - ✔✔Thinking someone's success is luck but our own are
due to hard work or their error are due to poor capabilities and our errors to
external factors
What is a suggestion for overcoming implicit bias? - ✔✔Changing patient-
provider contact to a collaboration
T/F: Race is a social construct - ✔✔True
At its inception, what was race defined as? - ✔✔A natural or biological
differences indicated by physical features
What was the creation of race as a key system of classification for? -
✔✔Justification of hierarchies of humanity
T/F: race is backed by science - ✔✔False
T/F: science demonstrates that the differences within different groups are greater
than the differences between the "race" - ✔✔True
