Attitudes and beliefs involving a tendency to prejudge people, usually negatively and usually on the basis of a single personal characteristic, without any objective basis for making such a judgment are called
a. Prejudice
b. Racism
c. Ignorance
d. Negativity
ANS: a
Sociology
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