Attitude and Prejudice — psychology STD 12 Arts — Question

• The English word prejudice is used for bias. Which means a decision has already been made.
• According to psychologists, prejudice is a pre-determined taboo attitude.
• Impulsive behavior is seen due to prejudice.
• Which gives birth to social conflict.
• Which requires the elimination or reduction of prejudice in order to achieve happiness, peace and prosperity in human life.
• Meaning:
• "Prejudice is a predetermined tendency to react to an individual or group in terms of direct thought, emotion or action."
• “Prejudice is a hasty and inadvertent decision.” – Augburn
• “Prejudice is an attitude that is always impulsive, which is acquired before there is sufficient evidence or experience.”- B. Kupuswami.
• Format:

(1) Prejudice is based on incomplete knowledge and incomplete information.

• Prejudice is built on the social process and the experience or opinion of an individual or a group.
• The reasons for which one does not know.
• There is a sense of antagonism towards the other party without any evidence.

(2) Prejudices are impulsive.

• Prejudice lacks information and does not have an intellectual investigation of evidence.
• It has a central impulse.
• Here negative emotions are found in behavior.
• E.g. If India loses a cricket match between India and England, firecrackers will explode in Pakistan.

(3) Prejudice motivates a person to rationalize.

• Rationalization is a form of defense.
• In which the person presents not true but good reasons for his behavior.
• In which a person does not accept his own behavior when he does not have reasons for prejudice and makes different excuses for the behavior.

(4) Prejudices give birth to a vicious cycle.

• Prejudices have impulsive inhibitory feelings.
• Inspired by this, both sides show excessive aggression.
• Aggressive behavior by one person is seen as more intense aggression by the other party.
• That is why riots, communal riots spread rapidly due to prejudice.
• Which creates a heavy fire-like situation on both sides.

(5) Prejudices are group-wide.

• Prejudice arising from personal matters often spreads to religion, caste or group.
• E.g. If there is injustice done to a person of one caste, other members of that caste also show prejudiced behavior.

(6) Prejudices are edited.

• Prejudice is formed from socialization, individual experiences or social behavior.
• For example, prejudice against caste or community in the minds of the elders of the society is gradually seen in the behavior of their children.
• Here the prejudice is edited by the behavior of the elders.