Social Psychology - Assignment PDF

Running head: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 1
Social Psychology
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2
1.Prejudice is defined as an aggressive attitude and treatment directed at people in a distinct
group given the membership of that particular group [ CITATION Whi16 \l 1033 ].
The components of prejudice are:
a. Gender- this is simply the state of being male or female. In this particular scenario the
children are composed of both genders. Gender can be a source of prejudice if the male
children look down upon the female children.
b. Racial and ethnicity identity- this is in relation to a race on the racial part while ethnicity
is the fact of belonging to a particular social group owing to similarity in nationality or
cultural practices. This can cause division in the class as other children may disrespect
others based on their ethnicity identity. An example of this is that the class has both black
American students and Asians.
c. Religion- this is the belief and worship of a superior being and controlling the universe
especially as God or gods. Different children profess different religion and others may
start to see their fellow as different and may not want to associate with them and this
brings prejudice. The class has children of different origin from Asians to first nations
who profess different religions.
[ CITATION Mee15 \l 1033 ]
2. Drawing an analogy to Jane Eliot’s work I would illustrate how superficial skin color can
create division between groups of persons and it all narrows to racism. Some people
portrays to be superior than others because of their skin color and looks down upon those
whose skin color is not close to anything like theirs. This has been a huge topic between