QUIZ:  Implicit Bias Training, 2023 Edition

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  1. If we were to say that Sally has an “implicit bias” against Bulgarians, then this could mean that Sally …

(A) does whatever she can to avoid Bulgarians.

(B) knowingly discriminates against Bulgarians.

(C) would be a better person if she liked Bulgarians.

(D) doesn’t realize that she dislikes Bulgarians. → §2.2: What is an "Implicit Bias"?

  1. What distinguishes an implicit bias from a cognitive bias?

    An implict bias …

(A) helps us make snap judgements.

(B) arises from experience. → §2.2.1: Types of Implicit Biases

(C) originates below the level of conscious awareness.

  1. Implicit processing is …

(A) automatic, adaptive, and associative. → §2.2.2: Implicit Bias in Action

(B) deliberate, fixed, and rational.

(C) conscious, logical, and deductive.

  1. After a three-year investigation ending in 2019 by a Long Island-based newspaper investigating the treatment of minority home buyers by real estate agents, the newspaper found …

(A) that agents steer homebuyers to neighborhoods based on income, never on race.

(B) that by-and-large agents treat minority homebuyers no differently than White homebuyers.

(C) widespread unequal treatment of minority homebuyers. → §2.3.2: Examples (of Explicit Biases)

  1. A study cited in “§3.1:  Studies of Implicit Bias” found that White teachers with strong, implicitly pro-White biases tended to use ____ teaching methods with their White students than their non-White students.

(A) less successful

(B) the same

(C) more effective → §3.1: Studies of Implicit Bias

  1. According to the authors of “§3.2:   Systemic Bias,” our biases against people of color result in explicit policies which produce outcomes which strengthen our biases against people of color.

(A) True → §3.2: Systemic Bias

(B) False

  1. Which is the least likely reason that Black households today have less equity in their homes than their White counterparts?

    Relative to White households, Black households …

(A) pay higher mortgage rates.

(B) cycle more often between homeownership and renting.

(C) take on more debt when purchasing homes.

(D) purchase homes of lesser value.

(E) were ill served by the FHA and VA in the past. → §3.3: Impact on Housing

(F) are more often victimized by predatory lenders.

  1. According to the historian, Richard Rothstein, the segregated housing seen today in every metropolitan area is the result of ____ segregation.

(A) de fondo

(B) de facto

(C) de jure → §4: Origins of Today's Segregation

  1. According to Richard Rothstein, in the late 1950’s, blockbusters hired Blacks to drive cars through White suburban neighborhoods with radios blasting to …

(A) panic Whites into selling for fear Blacks would soon be moving into their neighborhood. → §4: Origins of Today's Segregation

(B) promote rythm-and-blues artists like Chubby Checker to a White audience.

(C) celebrate the arrival of the first Black family into a White neighborhood.

  1. If your buyers ask you, “How are the public schools in this neighborhood?”, the National Association of Realtors® recommends you …

(A) provide them with third-party information about the neighborhood schools. → §6.2.1: NAR's Equal Professional Service Policy

(B) give them your honest opinion about the neighborhood schools.

(C) explain to them that the fair housing laws prohibit you from answering the question.