Prejudices act as cognitive filters through which people view the social world. People tend to think of people as "familiar" or
"foreign," or "good" or "bad." Their feelings and reactions toward others may be biased by these perceptions. This source of prejudice is referred to as _________. a. information processing
b. deindividuation
c. social learning
d. social facilitation
Let's dig deeper into the meaning of the "Social Learning Theory."
The Social Learning Theory was theorized by Albert Bandura. It states that behaviors are learned in the environment. This is done through the process of <em>observational learning. </em>This means that a person learns doing good deeds or bad things based on how he observes his environment. From here, they also learns "prejudice."
Prejudice refers to a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason. For example, a girl thinks that going out at night is a bad habit. She thinks like this because her parents have always told her like that. Another example is when a girl is surrounded by good people, she follows their example by also doing good deeds. She feels that this is a very normal thing to do. They influence her in such a way that they become her model. So, this becomes the normal social world that the she grows up.
