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Discrimination Definition In Psychology In Collin
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A simplified description of the legal definition of discrimination is when a person is treated disfavourably or when a person's dignity is violated.
To facilitate the learning, typically one of the stimuli is associated with a reinforcer or goal object and the other is not. For example, a cat may have to learn to find food under a white cup on the left side of an area in which there are white and black cups on both sides. Also called discriminative learning.
Only ordering a dish at one restaurant because you know that other restaurants don't offer that same menu item is an example of stimulus discrimination. Your cat being able to tell the difference between hearing you open a bag of chips and you opening a bag of cat treats is another example.
Discrimination learning is being able to behave differently when given different, or unique, stimuli. This type of learning is used in conditioning when a subject is expected to respond to a specific stimuli and not respond to those which may be similar. This type of learning is common in people's lives.
Theories of Discrimination Several theories have shaped our understanding of intergroup relations, prejudice and discrimination, and we focus on four here: the social identity perspective, the 'behaviours from inter- group affect and stereotypes' map, aversive racism theory and system justification theory.
Discrimination is usually the behavioral manifestation of prejudice and therefore involves negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of the members of rejected groups. By contrast, reverse discrimination is the favorable treatment of the oppressed group rather than the typically favored group.
A discriminative stimulus is the antecedent stimulus that has stimulus control over behavior because the behavior was reliably reinforced in the presence of that stimulus in the past. Discriminative stimuli set the occasion for behaviors that have been reinforced in their presence in the past.
Discrimination is negative action toward an individual as a result of one's membership in a particular group (Allport, 1954; Dovidio & Gaertner, 2004). As a result of holding negative beliefs (stereotypes) and negative attitudes (prejudice) about a particular group, people often treat the target of prejudice poorly.
Two major assumptions of Spence's discrimination learning theory were confirmed: (a) learning is continuous, and (b) discriminative stimuli in simple discrimination tasks of both simultaneous and successive types are compounds with position elements as well as elements from the relevant visual dimension.
While prejudice is a thought, discrimination is an action that causes us to treat different people differently, and even cause physical or emotional harm to others. The mere-exposure effect states that increased exposure to something or someone makes us like them more.