Prejudice, Stereotyping, And Discrimination

Introduction There are many forms of bias directed to a certain race, gender, ethnicity and age. Bias can either be universal or specific to a location. Individuals who practice biasness, without regard for the truth, tend to believe that the preconceived notions they are practicing on others are right. Biasness comes in three forms; prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination which may be similar but also very not the same. Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination can be performed by one individual or group of individuals through judging another individual or group of individuals without having truthful and accurate knowledge of the individual or group. Nonetheless, people practice each form of bias with diverse motives (Fiske, 2000).
A person or a group practice prejudice
This example shows how media perpetuates prejudice and stereotyping.
Influence of group membership on social judgement
Traditionally, group members are bonded together by uniformity in ethnic, social and cultural traits such as language, age which enhance their stereotypic attributions and behaviors. For the reason that stereotypical characters are typical to a group, the group members are more likely to use them in social dialogues which are related to group membership.
Recent research has recognized the existence of group membership stereotype threat that transpires when group members are aware of undesirable stereotypes about themselves. As a result, the prominence of group membership impairs their social performance and judgement by generating anxiety and perceptive obsession with the negative typecast. Stereotypes affect how people take in, process, and respond to information (Berdahl & Min, 2012).
How Stereotyping in everyday language and cognitive dissonance effects on social