Discrimination
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Discrimination is a broad term indicting the ability to make distinctions between two objects or stimuli and on that basis change behavior, attitudes, thoughts or feelings.
Psychologists have studed discrimination in a variety of settings:
- Cognitive discrimination
- Drug discrimination
- Perceptual discrimination
- Social discrimination
- Stimulus discrimination
[edit] See also
- Apartheid
- Discrimination learning
- Institutionalized discrimination
- Reverse discrimination
- Stereotyped attitudes
- Social issues
