• A prejudice is an opinion, prejudgment or attitude about a group or its individual members.
• A prejudice can be positive, but in our usage refers to a negative attitude.
• Prejudices are often accompanied by ignorance, fear or hatred.
• Prejudices are formed by a complex psychological process that begins with attachment to a close circle of acquaintances or an "in-group" such as a family.
• Prejudice is often aimed at "out-groups."
• Discrimination is behaviour that treats people unequally because of their group memberships.
• Discriminatory behaviour, ranging from slights to hate crimes, often begins with negative stereotypes and prejudices.
• A stereotype is defined as a social perception of an individual in terms of group membership or physical attributes.
• It is a generalization that is made about a group and then attributed to members of that group.
• Such a generalization may be either positive or negative.
• For example: women are:
○ talented speakers
○ bad drivers.
Stereotyping is a form of social categorization that affects the behaviour of those who hold the stereotype, and those who are labelled by a stereotype.
