Adnan Jaafar –ACCT201
Fall 2015
Intercultural Competencies Assignment
The test that I took before was the Gender-Career IAT test. I will describe the feedbacks and give some of my opinions regarding the test in this essay. Before I began the test, I believed that I would have a negative response toward the female sexual orientation. When I initially finished the Gender-Career IAT test, I definitely knew my score results. I had the "stereotype in my mind" that men would be more "profession minded" and ladies were all the more "family situated". The outcomes decided I had a "solid relationship of "Male with Career" and "Female with Family" contrasted with "female with Career" and "Male with Family". I believed the implicit association test
For this paper, I chose to take the Disability Implicit Association test and Race IAT test. For the Disability test I pretty much categorized good and bad words with images that were related to a disabled or abled person. It was very confusing because I kept getting the E and I mixed up.
My result is your data suggest a strong automatic preference for straight people compared to gay people. The result for this test was interesting because I never thought about a preference, previously. The test explanation indicates, “If you responded faster when Straight people and Good words were classified with the same key than when Gay people and Good words were classified with the same key.” (Teaching Tolerance, 2014) I found the association with good words and straight people or good words and gay people interesting correlation to locate hidden biases in this area. I interpreted the test result as no association between certain words and gay or straight. The interesting aspect is the automatic preference. The result indicates I have a hidden bias toward gay
1. Becoming Bicultural is another form of assimilation. It entails people of different cultures borrowing from one another’s culture what they consider right and integrating it within their individual cultures. The United States being a nation of immigrants and due to the recent massive immigration, the country is led to a nationwide struggle with the need to become bicultural, a difficult and sometimes painful process of navigating between ethnic cultures. Some former minority groups are now becoming the dominating group due to their high rate of immigration and high birth rate. The Latino and Asian populations form the largest portion of the leading groups that have literally changed the face of the nation and thus calling in for the need to become bicultural.
Cultural competence has a variety of definitions and, in health care, basically refers to the act of developing an awareness of yourself, your existence, your thoughts, and your environment and making sure that those elements do not unjustly affect the clients you serve (Giger, 2013). In this paper, I will share my total score and what I learned about myself after taking the Cultural Diversity Self Assessment (IllinoisCTE, n.d.), discuss two weaknesses or areas with lower scores, and review two strengths with higher scores. I will reflect on my findings and examine the impact that my strengths and weaknesses may have on my nursing care. In addition, I will discuss improving cultural competence and two strategies
I did not really believe that it was accurate until I took the tests. I accurately relied on my explicit attitudes that I never thought about what I subconsciously thought of. Taking the IAT’s allowed me to see a different perspective, moreover, even though I had an explicit attitude for both tests, I still got different results. In the textbook, it states that we can have both explicit and implicit attitudes toward the same topic (p. 169). Furthermore, taking the IAT’s allowed me to notice my implicit and explicit attitudes toward the same topic and how it contradicted to what I had initially
Many people relate sex, gender, and your sexual orientation as the same thing grouped in two categories of male or female traits and preference, however as both authors argue it is imperative to view each as a separate and ever changing category in order to protect peoples beliefs who contradict the earlier statement. “Educating legislators and policymakers about the damage inflicted by sexism and gender stereotyping is a critical component of winning
Miller, C., Lurye, L., Zosuls, K., & Ruble, D. (2009). Accessibility of Gender Stereotype Domains: Developmental and Gender Differences in Children. Sex Roles, 60(11/12), 870- 881. doi:10.1007/s11199-009-9584-x Trautner, H. M., Ruble, D. N., Cyphers, L., Kirsten, B., Behrendt, R., & Hartmann, P. (2005).
Cultural competence is defined as the capability of healthcare providers to effectively provide health services to individuals regardless their culture. As it can be observed, culture is not only defined by ethnicity, nationality, or language but encompasses “styles of communicating, way of interacting, views on roles and relationships, values, practices, and customs”1. Nowadays, cultural factors can even be extended to other factors such as gender, sexual orientation, or occupation. Therefore, it is imperative for health educators to understand the meaning of culture in order to adapt their interventions to all factors influencing individuals, or communities’ beliefs and behaviors. Health educators must understand that interventions cannot
However, a study by Chivers, Seto, and Blanchard (2007) tested the genital response and subjective arousal of heterosexual and homosexual women and men when looking at same and different gendered sexual acts. Their findings were consitent with previous research in relation to women finding sexual acts more determinate of arousal than the gender of the actor whereas with men the oppoosite was true. Further research shows that women who identify as ‘mostly straight’ are more same-sex oriented in sexual attraction and fantasies than ‘exclusively straight’ women however, they are not as oriented as bisexual or lesbian women (Thompson & Morgan, 2008). Because of this it is hypothesized that women will have a more significant liberal change in sexual attitude than men since women do not show the rigidity in gender preference as men
MyPlan is an online career planning and assessment tool that helps college students and professionals to identify their strengths and narrow down their career options. Found in MyPlan.com, the instrument helps users to: learn about careers and career options; assess their interests, personality, values and skills; identify what to major in; and learn about college rankings. MyPlan assessment tool has various career assessment tests including personality test, interest test, values test and skills test. Each of these tests can help students and professionals to make informed decisions about their education, careers and professional lives.
Introduction: Many assessment tools and interviewing skills are available to the clinical social worker within a mental health setting. This paper will examine one such assessment tool, the competency-based assessment, and its applicability in a mental health setting. A comparison will be made between this advanced assessment method and a generalist social work assessment. Interviewing people who have mental health concerns can offer challenges for clinical social workers. Several interviewing techniques that can help with some of these challenges will be outlined.
Socio-cultural and parental influences are significant factors that encourage biases based on gender stereotype. Both men and women internalize their perspective gender stereotype roles as a part of their identity (Firestone, Firestone, & Catlett, 2006). Due to changes in the social structure and gender role in the US, people are not as restricted by the stereotype today (Gardiner & Kosmitzki, 2010; Tucker, 2005). However, such changes raised issues that are also challenging to overcome. Gaining awareness of more implicit forms of discrimination and making changes in message vulnerable people receive would help reduce negative effects of discrimination and stereotype (Steel, 1997; Sue, et al., 2007). Furthermore, in the individual level, people can benefit from self-reflection to increase awareness of their own values, beliefs, and desires. Such awareness would likely to lead to mutuality between men and women, and establishing a healthy relationship (Firestone, Firestone, & Catlett,
My impressions of the opposite sex are diverse and have changed throughout my life. As a child born into a family of three girls, my exposure to the opposite sex was limited. The only real male in my life was my father. I never viewed him as the opposite sex because he was my dad. He was a strict, authoritative figure and a great protector. My early impressions of the opposite sex were that of great strength and security, both physically and emotionally.
When individuals or groups from different cultures communicate, this process is called intercultural communication. The transaction process of listening and responding to people from different cultural backgrounds can be challenging. The greater the difference in culture between two people, the greater the potential of misunderstanding and mistrust. Misunderstanding and miscommunication occur between people from different cultures because of different coding rules and cultural norms, which play a major role in shaping the patterns of interaction (Jandt, 2012).
In order to discuss the biology of gender identity and sexual orientation, it is necessary to first examine the differences between multiple definitions that are often mistakenly interchanged: sex, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Sexual orientation is defined by LeVay (2011) as “the trait that predisposes us to experience sexual attraction to people of the same sex as ourselves, to persons of the other sex, or to both sexes” (p. 1). The typical categories of sexual orientation are homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual. Vrangalova and Savin-Williams (2012) found that most people identify as heterosexual, but there are also groups of people that identify as mostly heterosexual and mostly gay within the three traditional categories (p. 89). This is to say that there are not three concrete groups, but sexual orientation is a continuum and one can even fluctuate on it over time. LeVay (2011) also defines gender as “the ...