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Cognitive Psychology: Attention · Decision making · Learning · Judgement · Memory · Motivation · Perception · Reasoning · Thinking - Cognitive processes Cognition - Outline Index
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
- Auditory discrimination
- Cognitive discrimination
- Distance discrimination
- Drug discrimination
- Figure ground discrimination
- Loudness discrimination
- Odor discrimination
- Pattern discrimination
- Perceptual discrimination
- Pitch discrimination
- Race and ethnic discrimination
- Size discrimination
- Spatial discrimination
- Stimulus discrimination
- Tactual discrimination
- Taste discrimination
- Visual discrimination
In social psychology
See also
- Antidiscrimination law in the UK
- Apartheid
- Acquired distinctiveness
- Discriminated avoidance learning
- Discrimination Model
- Discrimination abilities of pigeons
- Discrimination learning
- Discriminative response
- Discriminative stimulus
- Genetic discrimination
- Institutionalized discrimination
- Minority stress
- Mentalism (discrimination)
- Reverse discrimination
- Rights
- Stereotyped attitudes
- Social issues