Additional Topic: Prejudice
Cover the complete Prejudice option through discrimination, explanations, reduction and studies.
How to study Higher Psychology
Build each answer from accurate psychological knowledge, named evidence, application to behaviour, analysis and justified evaluation.
Core concepts
Concept 1
direct and indirect racial, age and gender discrimination
Exam cue: Distinguish prejudice as attitude from discrimination as behaviour.
Concept 2
authoritarian personality and stereotyping
Exam cue: Explain the process predicted by each theory.
Concept 3
realistic conflict, scapegoat and social identity theories
Exam cue: Match the reduction method to the cause or mechanism it addresses.
Concept 4
jigsaw technique, stereotype-challenging media, education and affirmative action
Concept 5
one explanatory and one reduction study
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating indirect discrimination as less consequential.
Guardrail: Avoid deterministic claims, unsupported causation and generic evaluation disconnected from the named evidence.
Using stereotype, prejudice and discrimination interchangeably.
Guardrail: Avoid deterministic claims, unsupported causation and generic evaluation disconnected from the named evidence.
Listing reduction strategies without explaining how they work.
Guardrail: Avoid deterministic claims, unsupported causation and generic evaluation disconnected from the named evidence.
Memory anchors
Direct discrimination
Different treatment explicitly based on a protected characteristic.
Indirect discrimination
An apparently general rule disproportionately disadvantages a group.
Realistic conflict theory
Competition over scarce resources can generate hostility between groups.
Social identity theory
Categorisation and in-group identification can produce in-group favouritism and out-group bias.
Jigsaw technique
Interdependent co-operation gives group members distinct contributions toward a shared goal.
Reduction evidence
Evaluate whether attitude, behaviour and real-world discrimination change, not just short-term self-report.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
In the Higher Psychology prejudice option, which description defines direct discrimination?
A club openly refuses membership to people above a stated age. Which type is illustrated?
Answer all questions to submit.
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