Using an Internet Activity to Enhance Students' Awareness of Age Bias in Social Perceptions

Autor/inn/en	VonDras, Dean D.; Lor-Vang, Mai Nou
Titel	Using an Internet Activity to Enhance Students' Awareness of Age Bias in Social Perceptions
Quelle	In: Educational Gerontology, 30 (2004) 4, S.261-273 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1277
Schlagwörter	Internet; Learning Activities; Age; Bias; Social Bias; Psychology; Aging Education; Student Attitudes; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernaktivität; Alter; Lebensalter; Psychologie; Ageing education; Altenbildung; Schülerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Seeking to extend curricula in a Psychology of Aging course, an online Internet test that assesses user's implicit attitudes was used as part of a learning activity to enhance students' awareness of age-bias in social perceptions. A pretest-posttest methodology examined the efficacy of this learning activity in three separate investigations. Overall, results suggest the learning activity increases students' awareness of cognitive biases in their perceptions of others. Further, self-enhancement motivation and alliance with a group that has suffered prejudice or discrimination were found to mediate bias ratings. The need to recognize age as a diversity issue and promote positive representations of older adults is discussed. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10