A child could be influenced at a very young age to be prejudice through classical conditioning. If you take a child and show him a picture of a black family if each time he reaches for the picture of the black family he receives a hard pinch that makes him cry followed by the word “bad” he will associate the black family with being bad. If this action is repeated eventually when the child sees a black person he will dislike black people.
US=Pinch UR/CR=dislike CS=black people
Operant Conditioning
If a person were to place to pictures in front of a child, one of a black family and one of a white family, if each time the child reaches for the picture of the black family he receives a hard pinch that