Identifying Prejudice and Discrimination

Experiment

A structured investigation to test a hypothesis or answer a research question, often involving manipulation of variables and control groups.

Exercise

A physical or mental activity performed for practice, training, or improvement, without the specific goal of testing a hypothesis.

Critical Consciousness

Acting against the oppressive elements in one’s life that are illuminated by that understanding.

Innate sense of prejudice or discrimination

Prejudice or discrimination that originates from factors such as home upbringing, religion, culture, media exposure, community, friends, and family.

Social Psychology

The scientific study of how society affects the way individuals behave, think, and feel.

Major themes in psychology

Prejudice and discrimination, attitudes and persuasion, and prosocial behavior are a few examples of the major themes in psychology.

Anti-Black Racism

Prejudice or discrimination directed at people of African descent.

Kenneth E. Boulding

He used "the image" to describe how people perceive things exactly as they exist in the real world.

Paradigm

Acts like a filter through which information is processed. (Joel Barker worked on this concept)