AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Prejudicial attitudes included racism, sexism, homophobia, physical disability bias, weight/body-size bias, and anti-immigrant sentiment. As a secondary objective, we examined the associations among the various forms of prejudice and their relationship to key demographic and personal characteristics.

Detailed explanation-2: -This is because prejudices are based on the human tendency to categorise objects and people based on prior experience. This means people make predictions about things in a category based on prior experience with that category, with the resulting predictions usually being accurate (though not always).

Detailed explanation-3: -Students will understand and be able to differentiate between the different theoretical perspectives concerned with prejudice, including but not limited to attribution theory, scapegoat hypothesis, authoritarian personality, and power/conflict theories. 5.