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

See also

• Apartheid
• Discrimination learning
• Institutionalized discrimination
• Reverse discrimination
• Stereotyped attitudes
• Social issues