Stereotypes: The Role Of Prejudice And Violence In Children

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Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed without knowledge or reason regarding an ethnic, racial or religious group. Stereotype equally is a thought or over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people, of which the thought is not necessarily accurate(MyPsychLabVideo) According to social learning theory, prejudice is learned just the same way that people learn other values and attitudes, mostly through association and modeling as well as reinforcement(Feldman,2013).
In regard to association, children may learn to associate a certain group of people with crime and violence as well poverty and other bad things. In reinforcement, children at times may be rewarded for telling offensive ethnic jokes while others laugh