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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 PsychophysicsEdit

• 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 psychologyEdit

• Social discrimination
  • Age discrimination
  • Disability discrimination
  • Employment discrimination
  • Ethnic discrimination
  • Job discrimination
  • Minority group discrimination
  • Sex discrimination

See alsoEdit

• Antidiscrimination law in the UK
• Apartheid
• Discriminated avoidance learning
• Discrimination Model
• Discrimination abilities of pigeons
• Discrimination learning
• Discriminative response
• Discriminative stimulus
• Genetic discrimination
• Institutionalized discrimination
• Mentalism (discrimination)
• Reverse discrimination
• Rights
• Stereotyped attitudes
• Social issues