...Stereotype threats are related to mathematics, it specially affects men and women. There are two different terms that affect the outcome of performance, stereotype threat and stereotype lift. Stereotype threat is the threat that other peoples judgments about a certain groups performance will cause that group to perform in a way that confirms the negative stereotype that’s believed about that group. Stereotype lift is causes the individual to perform much better than those exposed to negative stereotypes about other groups. Stereotype threat affects math performance. Identify how and in what ways does it affect the performance because of the expectations for a women’s poor performance in math. It’s hypothesis that women will perform worse in...
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...Stereotype threat affects many people in many different ways. Social Psychology defines Stereotype threat “is a disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. Unlike self-fulfilling prophecies that hammer one’s self –concept, stereotype threat situations have immediate effects ” The effects of stereotype threat are advanced because of the self-fulfilling prophecies that many different races, sexes or even religions fall into the effects of. Stereotype threat plays amongst different groups, and the effects that may cause a different reaction otherwise if not being associated with that group, self -fulfilling prophecies can be the consequence. In some situations Stereotype threat can be a subconscious thought, but for some situations or people if they believe a stereotype and circum to it simply without even trying, that is the self -fulfilling prophecy that is placed on oneself. Stereotype threat can be implanted in us by certain words and attitudes that are associated with certain groups of people. It has been studied more over the years of the different ways that stereotype threat plays a role in certain groups and the consequences that it has. Research was originally centered on race and how it has caused underachievement among African Americans. In recent research it has been broadened to show this threat in many different areas that can affect almost all people in some way. Options that can be used to minimize...
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...In Steele’s In the Air Between Us, he argues that stereotype threats make students underperform, no matter who they are. However, it is the students who take their schooling seriously who are the most affected. Also, the stereotype threat is not only towards minorities. These studies should lead us to reevaluate how we test our students to ensure they are not underperforming because of preconceived beliefs that they are not good enough. These studies also have implications for why the country’s most underperforming students do not have high test scores. This issue of stereotype threat is something that needs more attention to be brought to it. When students, even some of the best ones, are underperforming simply because society has taught them...
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...How Stereotypes Affect Us In this video Claude Steele tells about his research on stereotype threat and the way it affects us. Each of us has social identities such as gender, age, race, sexuality etc. Stereotype threat is an experience of being in situation or doing something for which a negative stereotype about one of your identities is relevant. African American can be seen as a violent person in a neighborhood with predominantly white people or white student can be perceived as a racist in class that is predominantly nonwhite, that are some of examples of stereotype threat. Dealing with things, because of particular identity in particular place that what makes the identity real. We often have fear to be judged in terms of negative stereotype. That can make us sad and confused, but also it can affect our behavior and performance! One of experiments was related to stereotype that women are not as good in math as men. Both women and men were taking math exam sitting in one room. Women showed worse results than men. That happened, because women were worried about this stereotype (often unconsciously), so they have to put double efforts to perform under this pressure. But when before test participants were told that in this particular test everyone (men and women) do equally all the time, women get same good results as men! Same situation was with IQ test for white and black participants. Black got lower results when were told that this is a test to measure intelligence...
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...20 THREATS 1 Since this is a pioneering, people might find it unusual to use a toothpaste in a chewable form. 2 Another challenge would be convincing the traditional toothbrush users to buy the product. 3 The biggest competitor would be the chewing gum companies. 4 There is a high potential that consumers will not use this product as a substitute product for toothpaste. 5 Possibility of slow market growth. 6 Possibility of product being a “fad” in the market. 7 The challenge of being universally accepted in the marketplace. 8 Once it enters the market, it can be easily duplicated. 9 There could be a low customer demand. 10 It would be difficult to penetrate the competitive market. 11 Doctors may still recommend toothpaste as the number one solution for oral treatment. 12 The need to have the positioning of product in the minds of the consumers would be hard to achieve. 13 Mouthwash companies can also be seen as one of the competitors. 14 Customers might not find the same satisfaction they get from tooth brushing. 15 The changing needs of the consumers are inevitable. 16 As a developing company, it requires a huge amount of effort to market the product. 17 The increasing number of counterfeits. 18 There could be a seldom buying in this product since people are used to brushing teeth. 19 Consumers especially generation X may perceived that it may cause cavity because of being a gum type. 20 It may be difficult for the company to achieve its desired...
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...often than not have similar IQ scores. However, they will still typically match closer to their adoptive parents than birth parents for the environmental influences. However, environmental influences tend to be less important over time. Heredity tends to be more of a factor for the development of intelligence than the environment. A stereotype threat is an idea that our behavior worsens when we are reminded of a negative stereotype about us. Because of stereotype threat, students are reminded of a negative stereotype and are often more likely to perform worse, especially if that stereotype is one that makes them feel inferior. You have the choice to ignore the stereotypes and prove those people and their stereotypes were wrong. However too often people allow the stereotype to get to their heads. They allow other people to let them play worse than they would have without the negative stereotypes floating around. Annie Duke was involved in a male dominant sport. She would sit down at the poker table with all other men, and take all the wrong things the men would say to her or about her. If anyone was was subject to stereotype threat it was her. In the podcast, she describes...
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...One of the major issues I have observed is the “achievement gap”. Most educators define the achievement gap as the difference in performance between low-income and minority students compared to that of their peers. Traditionally African-American students lag behind their white peers. In “The Black-White Achievement Gap, why closing it is the greatest civil rights”, former Education Secretary Rod Paige and his sister, Elaine Witty argue that education is the new civil rights. Instead of fighting for issues traditionally associated with civil rights, African American leaders should advocate for the children. Leaders can bring forth change by building public awareness and using their powers to bring necessary change. Rod Paige believes we can narrow the gap by a concerted effort of committed leadership and community involvement. Like leadership, environment also plays a significant role in narrowing the achievement gap. From 2001 – 2007 the Century Foundation tracked two sets of low-income students in Montgomery County Maryland: one group was assigned to higher-income schools and the other was not. Although the lower income students received more funding, the students assigned to the higher-income students were able to cut the achievement gap by almost a third in reading and half in math. The researcher of the study, Heather Schwartz, cited environmental reasons such as a stable set of teachers, less disruptions in the classroom, and more engaged students as reasons for the...
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...Dangerous Stereotypes for Women To understand stereotype, you should define what it is. As Cambridge Dictionaries says, stereotype is a fixed idea that people have about what someone or something is like. No one chooses to be stereotyped or categorized under a specific title, and no one wants to be the victim of an unfair judgment. Despite those opinions, people make judgments on people they barely know. Stereotypes usually lead to incorrect predictions about a person or group. The use of stereotypes to judge another human being can cause serious harm to others. According to traditional stereotypes, men are strong and dominant. Whereas females are weak and submissive. Gender stereotypes disadvantage and discriminate against women in many places. Thus, this paper focuses on three negative stereotypes about women in the workplace, at school, and in society that could cause serious harm to them. Negative gender stereotype, especially being dependent or no self-confidence, impact women in the workplaces. According to the article ‘Media Portrayal of Women and Social Change’, “women are often stereotypically portrayed as playing lesser beings, dependent roles or sexual objects.” This means it is more appropriate for women to stay at home doing housework and caring for children than getting a job. When women are offered employment jobs, they are not given good jobs because men believe that they could not handle traditionally masculine work. Men think that women are not...
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...Interpreting Rhythm through movement The beat or pulse gives music much of its energy, excitement and drive. More than any other factor, it is the beat that conveys felt time, the space that music appears to carve out for it. The Momentum in Music This sense of time has little to do with real time or clock tim. It is ‘‘felt” time. “Lo que pareciera pero no es”t. Music seems to stretch and expand time, condense it, or make us forget it together. Discover Felt Time Determine which of these contrasting pieces is longer Adagio for strings by Samuel Barber Orchestral suite No.2 by J.S Bach As you listen decide which of the following words describe the character of these selectin. Slow Short Sounds Calmed Weak pulse- Rhythm Spirited Strong pulse- RHythm Fast Tension Hurried Response Detached Accents Accent is the emphasis placed on a beat.. The pulse moves by steady beats, some of which are accented to create strong and weak beats.. These stressed and unstressed pulses usually fall in groups of 2 and 3. The firs beat in each measure has an accent. Time Signature Set of numbers at the beggining of a piece of music. Top number: indicates the kind of note that recieves the beat. Time signature is also called meter tempo Is the pace ( speed) with which music moves The pace of music is one of the...
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...Brock Dickerson Instructor Elise Bui Psych 33205 11/4/2013 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Stereotyping is prevalent all around us in the world, whether we want it to exist in us or not, it does. We all have beliefs and notions about people and groups and situations and places. One way these beliefs can be reinforced whether we realize it or not, is through a process called self-fulfilling prophecy. This concept is when we expect something to happen and because we are expecting a certain result, our behaviors are unconsciously striving to make that result occur. (Lecture 10/21) The expectation could even be false, but because the person or group of people believe that this result is going to occur, it eventually does occur because of their actions and behaviors. This concept can also be applied to social groups, for example; if a person is about to realize a negative stereotype for their social group they will strive to avoid it, but in thinking about this stereotype for so long and stressing over it so intensely, their social group actually forms that stereotype. I actually witness this concept at my workplace a lot. Sometimes we will have people transfer stores and this means a lot of people work with each other from different restaurants and sometimes a guy or gal will transfer to my store and a fellow employee will tell me, “Hey, this guy is a real jerk.” or, “This girl is real shy.” They plant this notion in my mind and now, without even realizing it, I am behaving differently...
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...Second Chance: Plot: A young man contemplating about what led him to the edge of the cliff. Characters: The main character is only known by his nick name Babs. He talks about his family and refers to his dad as Baba, (which is Arabic for dad). Conflict: A man with a conflicting mind contemplates and reflects on the past few years in his life that led him to the edge of the cliff, on his back, covered in blood, overwhelmed with regret, fear, and pain. There’s two ways off the ledge, either way, someone dies. Setting: This story takes place in both Chicago, Illinois in the winter of 2014, and in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska in the summer of 2019. Point of View: The 1st person point of view of Babs. When death is lurking in your veins, your life presents itself to you through your dimming, and regretful eyes, in the way you lived. In life, every couple years or so, you reflect on yourself, seeing what and who you are versus what and who you wanted to be. I’ve never been where I should or wanted to be. I’ve made some mistakes, just like every other human being. What I’ve done in my short twenty four years of life on gods beautiful green earth has led me here. Lying on the edge of this cliff, with my neck and torso over this mountain top, blood slowly flowing up my shoulder and down my neck like a stream of interconnecting rivers; one river ending at my mouth forcing me to swallow my own blood, the others getting in my eyes and going throw my gaping nostrils gasping...
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...The society that we live in, may be seen as fair by some and unfair by others. It is said that society is at most unfair point throughout history. The authors of The Spirit Level, states that society has come to a point where there is more inequality than ever. In 1921, the life expectancy for men was 4 years less than that of women; this number had risen to 5.5 years in the 1990s. This is one of the many ways that society may be deemed as unequal. There is however many different ways as to how why and how a person may be treated less favourably than other people. Within society, an aspect of inequality is labelling. Labelling is process where someone holds a certain belief over another individual. Within sociology labelling is a way of controlling the behaviour of an individual. For example, in a school a teacher may label a student as a failure if the student is someone who cannot complete their homework due to other commitments or not having the facility to do so. Due to the label that the teacher has against the student, the attitude that the teacher will show the student would lead the student to failure. This is self-fulfilling prophecy. Self-fulfilling prophecy that the individual, who has been labelled, adapts their attitude and follows the attitude of the label. When a positive label is associated to an individual such as ‘she is an overachiever’ this is known as the Halo effect. Stereotyping is another form of inequality within society. Stereotyping and...
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...Orascom Telecom Employees protected from spam Case Study Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. (“OTH”) was established in 1998 and has grown to become a leading player in the international telecommunications market. OTH is considered among the largest and most diversified network operators in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, with a mobile telephony penetration of approximately 48% in those regions, and more than 80 million subscribers as of March 31st, 2009. Orascom Telecom Holding operates GSM networks in Algeria (OTA), Egypt (Mobinil), Pakistan (Mobilink), Bangladesh (Banglalink), Tunisia (Tunisiana) and North Korea (Koryolink). OTH has an indirect equity ownership in Globalive Wireless which has been granted a spectrum license in Canada. Through its subsidiary Telecel Globe, OTH also operates in Burundi, the Central African Republic, Namibia and Zimbabwe. At OTH, all the information exchanged between the corporate headquarters and OTH subsidiaries on one side, and external vendors on the other side, is communicated by email. Email is therefore a mission-critical business application on which all corporate employees rely. Unfortunately, with 90% of its 1.5 million daily emails consisting of spam, OTH was rapidly overwhelmed by this type of malware. In order to protect its corporate email servers and users against spam and viruses, the IT security department of OTH had installed a third-party software application on the exchange servers. However, this security solution soon...
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...Implementing the WWF Project & Programme Standards Step 1.4 Define: Threat Ranking July 2007 Step 1.4 Threat Ranking Contents What Is a Threat Ranking?................................................................................................... 1 Why Is Threat Ranking Important? ..................................................................................... 1 When To Use Threat Rankings ............................................................................................ 1 How To Do a Threat Ranking ............................................................................................... 1 1. Determine the criteria for ranking .................................................................................................2 2. Apply the threat ranking................................................................................................................3 3. Sum up your threats across all targets to get an overall ranking for the site ...............................4 4. Classify each threat ......................................................................................................................4 Other Methods for Threat Ranking...................................................................................... 6 References............................................................................................................................. 6 Annex 1: Other Methods for Threat Ranking ....................................................
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...Security Threats Computer security is no longer just an organization’s concern but everyone’s who uses their computer to access the internet. Anyone who uses their personal computer to access the internet faces potential security threat. This document will identify all the potential security threats on a personal computer and some techniques an attacker might employ to access information on the file system. Security threats can be broadly classified into outside and inside threats. Organization may be exposed to viruses and worms as a result of employees not following certain practices or procedures. Intruders are also a big security threat—they hack into large networks to steal private information like social security numbers or credit card account information. Closely related to the intruder security threats are the “Insiders” who are more dangerous in many respects than outside intruders. Insiders have the access and knowledge necessary to cause immediate damage to an organization. Most security is designed to protect against outside intruders and thus lies at the boundary between the organization and the rest of the world (Conklin & White). The various techniques an attacker might employ to access file systems are, Trojan horse programs which are a common way for intruders to trick you (sometimes referred to as "social engineering") into installing "back door" programs. These can allow intruders easy access to your computer without your knowledge, change your...
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