Essay On Implicit Prejudice

Prejudice is a very common attitude in today’s society. A negative attitude toward people who belong to a specific social group,” is the common definition, which leads to the topic of racism. All over the country, I’ve heard people attribute racism to parents teaching their children a certain way and that is what ultimately leads to it. However, the scientific study of prejudice explains that racial and ethnic groups are far more alike than different. It also explains that differences between the two are actually smaller than among members of the same group. Psychology explains what explicit and implicit prejudice while reflecting back on how it applies to racism. Explicit prejudice is the most common kind of prejudice that people are aware …show more content…
With this experiment, they looked at teachers ‘explicit ethnicity-based expectations for academic achievement’ and their ‘implicit prejudiced attitudes about academic achievement on students’ actual academic success over time. After having 38 teachers participate in a IAT and a traditional teacher expectation questionnaire, they found that classrooms that had teachers with high expectations performed better in certain subjects. Overall, it was found that the teachers’ explicit expectations did NOT vary in different ethnic groups but their implicit prejudiced attitudes related to student’s year-end scores in certain subjects. More specifically, there were some students who benefited from the favored implicit prejudice with their ethnicity. With implicit prejudice, we can predict behaviors. An example of this would be the raised grades for the kids who didn’t have prejudice against them. However, it is harder for us to see explicit prejudice when it comes to studies. Being that there are only surveys, there may be a way around the answers showing the person is