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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.
  
'''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:
  
Psychologists have studed discrimination in a variety of settings:
   
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==In [[Psychophysics]]==
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*[[Auditory discrimination]]
 
*[[Cognitive discrimination]]
  
*[[Cognitive discrimination]]
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*[[Distance discrimination]]
 
*[[Drug discrimination]]
  
*[[Drug discrimination]]
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*[[Figure ground discrimination]]
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*[[Loudness discrimination]]
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*[[Odor discrimination]]
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*[[Pattern discrimination]]
 
*[[Perceptual discrimination]]
  
*[[Perceptual discrimination]]
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*[[Social discrimination]]
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*[[Pitch discrimination]]
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*[[Race and ethnic discrimination]]
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*[[Size discrimination]]
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*[[Spatial discrimination]]
 
*[[Stimulus discrimination]]
  
*[[Stimulus discrimination]]
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*[[Tactual discrimination]]
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*[[Taste discrimination]]
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*[[Visual discrimination]]
   
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==In social psychology==
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*[[Social discrimination]]
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**[[Age discrimination]]
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**[[Class discrimination]]
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**[[Disability discrimination]]
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**[[Employment discrimination]]
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**[[Ethnic discrimination]]
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**[[Job discrimination]]
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**[[Minority group discrimination]]
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**[[Sex discrimination]]
   
 
==See also==
  
==See also==
 
*[[Antidiscrimination law in the UK]]
  
*[[Antidiscrimination law in the UK]]
 
*[[Apartheid]]
  
*[[Apartheid]]
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*[[Discriminated avoidance learning]]
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*[[Discrimination Model]]
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*[[Discrimination abilities of pigeons]]
 
*[[Discrimination learning]]
  
*[[Discrimination learning]]
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*[[Discriminative response]]
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*[[Discriminative stimulus]]
 
*[[Genetic discrimination]]
  
*[[Genetic discrimination]]
 
*[[Institutionalized discrimination]]
  
*[[Institutionalized discrimination]]
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*[[Minority stress]]
 
*[[Mentalism (discrimination)]]
  
*[[Mentalism (discrimination)]]
 
*[[Reverse discrimination]]
  
*[[Reverse 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:

In Psychophysics

In social psychology

See also


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