Implicit Bias - Correctional Officer Basic Training (COBT 147)

Vocabulary flashcards defining key concepts related to implicit bias, microaggressions, microaffirmations, equality, equity, and workplace impacts from the COBT 147 curriculum.

Bias

An evaluation or belief.

Implicit Bias

A prejudice or preference that turns into an action that is unconscious.

Implicit Bias Triggers

Conditions under which most implicit biases occur, most frequently when under pressure, multitasking, or simply being in a hurry.

Workplace Impact of Unconscious Bias

Affects interactions with co-workers, the general public, offenders, and decision making on a daily basis.

Microaggressions

Comments or actions that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group.

Microassaults

A category of microaggressions, with examples including racial slurs on a bathroom wall.

Microinsults

A category of microaggressions, with examples including comments like "How did you get this job?".

Microinvalidations

A category of microaggressions, with examples including statements like "Wow, you speak really good English!".

Microaffirmations

Tiny acts of opening doors to opportunity, gestures of inclusion, or caring, such as asking others for their opinions or giving credit to another's ideas.

Impacts of Knowing Privilege

Understanding privilege impacts ourselves by building awareness and thankfulness for opportunities, impacts others by making us aware of those less fortunate, and impacts our decisions by evaluating if they will affect others negatively.

Ways to Eliminate Bias Behaviors

Three actions: 1. Become aware of your biases so that you can interrupt them; 2. Increase contact with people who are different from you; 3. Take care of yourself.

Equality

Giving everyone the exact same resources.

Equity

Distributing resources based on the needs of the recipients.