SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION
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Discrimination is the action of treating unfairly based on defining characteristics. Prejudice is the thoughts and emotions one has about a person’s defining characteristics.
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Discrimination is the thoughts and emotions one has about a person’s defining characteristics. Prejudice is the action of treating unfairly based on defining characteristics.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A prejudice is an opinion-usually an unfavourable one-that was formed before having any evidence and that is not based on reason or experience. While a stereotype is a thought about a person or group of people, a prejudice relates to feelings and attitudes about that person or group of people.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stereotypes affect all of us as they prevent us from doing certain things, that we might otherwise be good at. Discrimination happens when people act on their prejudices or stereotypes.
Detailed explanation-3: -So the correct answer for this is prejudice is to feelings as discrimination is to behavior. So feelings which we can prejudice can be linked to feelings and in the same way as discrimination can be linked to behavior because discrimination is the negative thought that is acting as a we are acting it out.
Detailed explanation-4: -Discrimination is the process of distinguishing one person from another on the basis of caste, religion, language, creed, color, economic condition is called discrimination. Discrimination happens when people act on their prejudices or stereotypes. We discriminate people from others by : i. Putting them down.