Which of the following is the best definition of "discrimination"?

a. A negative attitude or feeling toward an individual based solely on that individual's membership in a certain group
b. A negative attitude or feeling toward a racial or ethnic group
c. Unequal treatment of different people based on the groups or categories to which they belong
d. Beliefs that associate groups of people with certain traits.


C

Psychology

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Attention, perception, memory, and decision making are all different types of mental processes in which the mind engages. These are known as different types of

A. models. B. cognition. C. reaction times. D. savings.

Psychology

Research that demonstrated that Black children often preferred playing with a White doll than a Black doll was cited in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. Who conducted this research?

a. ?Martin Seligman and Ed Diener b. ?Kenneth Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark c. ?Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers d. ?Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

Psychology

McClelland reported that children's school grades and achievement motivation are

a. positively correlated. b. uncorrelated. c. negatively correlated. d. difficult to compare because the concepts differ.

Psychology

Somatic markers are defined as a. learned associations between stimuli and the physical responses they elicit

b. conscious appraisals of subjective emotional states. c. unlearned associations between physical states and subjective feelings. d. stimuli that nearly all human beings respond to emotionally without prior experience.

Psychology