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Discrimination Definition In Psychology In Pima
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Discrimination. For example, if a bell tone were the conditioned stimulus, discrimination would involve being able to tell the difference between the bell tone and other similar sounds. Because the subject is able to distinguish between these stimuli, they will only respond when the conditioned stimulus is presented.
An example of a discriminative stimulus is when a child engages in the target behavior of cleaning their room when a parent is present, but not engaging in the behavior when the parent is not present. The parent is the discriminative stimulus they influences the target behavior of cleaning the room.
Introduction. Discrimination refers to an act, policy, practice, or social structure that creates, maintains, or reinforces an advantage for some groups and their members over other groups and their members.
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.
Discrimination. Negative action towards individuals identified of some identifiable group.
While prejudice refers to biased thinking, discrimination consists of actions against a group of people. Discrimination can be based on race, ethnicity, age, religion, health, and other categories.
Discrimination, in psychology, the ability to perceive and respond to differences among stimuli. It is considered a more advanced form of learning than generalization (q.v.), the ability to perceive similarities, although animals can be trained to discriminate as well as to generalize.
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.
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.
