Bias In America Research Paper

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Final: The Bias of America Wealth, it's one of the most prominent concepts that comes to mind when most people hear the word doctor; it's also a common stereotype. The truth is is that coming out of med-school most 'doctors' don't really make all that much money, at least not to begin with. The media has some impact of how the common people perceive different aspects of live. The media only serves to reinforce people's prejudice and stereotypes of different social groups. One negative aspect about the media is that nearly the whole system is warped and bias to begin with, feeding the public only what they want to see. Stereotypes from the media can stretch back to at least the fifties with shows such as Leave it to Beaver, or Father Knows Best which focuses on the man being the dominate member of the family and the wife submissive. During the…show more content…
Its immediate ancestor was the cognitive revolution of the 1970s, an explosion of psychological research into the way people think. After decades dominated by the study of observable behavior, scientists wanted a closer look at the more mysterious operation of the human brain. And the development of computers-which enabled scientists to display information very quickly and to measure minute discrepancies in reaction time-permitted a peek into the unconscious. At the same time, the study of cognition was also illuminating the nature of stereotypes themselves. Research done after World War IT-mostly by European emigres struggling to understand how the Holocaust had happened-concluded that stereotypes were used only by a particular type of person: rigid, repressed, authoritarian. Borrowing from the psychoanalytic perspective then in vogue, these theorists suggested that biased behavior emerged out of internal conflicts caused by inadequate

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