Identifying Prejudice and Discrimination

Difference between an experiment and an exercise:

Experiment:

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

Exercise:

An exercise is 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.

Where does the innate sense prejudice or discrimination come form?

• Home upbringing

• Religion

• Culture

• Media Exposure

• Community, Friends, Family

Social Psychology:

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

Most topics in psychology fall into one of 7 majors themes:

• A few includes prejudice and discrimination

• Attitudes and persuasion

• Prosocial behaviour

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

• A paradigm acts like a filter through which information is processed. (Joel Barker worked on the concept of the paradigm)