In a Committee Meeting on How to Best Serve Latinx

question 69

Multiple Choice

In a committee meeting on how to best serve Latinx students at their university,Dr.Gutierrez suggested a training she'd attended on best practices,but her colleagues failed to acknowledge her suggestion and kept brainstorming.Fifteen minutes later,Dr.Smith suggested the same workshop,which prompted the committee to agree to attend the workshop.Ignoring the female professor and believing the male professor is an example of which of the following?

• A) using degrading language
• B) linguistic bias
• C) the theory of communicator status
• D) confirmation bias

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