Module Review


1		Prejudice is negative of a group and its individual members. The beliefs supporting prejudice are called , and they are often inaccurate and resistant to new information.


2		Discrimination is unjustifiably negative toward a group. The terms "racism" and " " refer to institutional practices that discriminate.


3		Survey research suggests that racial prejudice in the United States has since the early 1940s. Prejudice still exists, surfacing when a person thinks it is to express it. The phenomenon of greatest prejudice in the most social realms seems universal.


4		While no longer blatant, racial prejudice still exists in forms and is evident from experiments which have assessed people's actual toward Blacks and Whites. Prejudice operates largely as an , unintended response.


5		Prejudice toward women has declined in recent decades. However, as is true of racial prejudice, strong stereotypes still exist, and gender prejudice still lives.