Question

Janet means well when she tells her daughter, "Please don’t ever date a boy with a tattoo. People with tattoos are dangerous. A girl down the street dated a boy with a huge tattoo and he beat her up." If Janet knows other people with tattoos who are not dangerous but she holds these beliefs strongly and tells this particular story anyway, she may be engaging in:_______.

Answer 1

Answer:

ideological distortion

Explanation:

A distorted belief can be described as an ideological belief when the pro-attitude that motivates it is a preference for greater power. This means that ideological beliefs can not derive from the illegitimate action of a need, but only a desire or a reason.

Janet had observed a boy with a tattoo beating up a girl. This incident had greater power as compared to the other people who she knew having a tattoo. Hence, she formed the ideological distortion.