Prejudice And Impression Analysis

Prejudice is a hostile or negative attitude toward people in a separate group, due to their membership in that group (Aronson, Wilson & Akert, 2013). It has been with humanity since a long time ago, but it is only recently, within the 20th and 21st centuries that prejudice has surfaced more than ever, especially regarding the stereotypes of gender, to serve the rights of humans. Even recently, there have been news that were published in regards to prejudice and discrimination. The first news article concerns the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, in the United States, by another police officer because Rice ‘failed to obey an order to raise his hands’ after being caught pulling out a replica gun, which lacked of an orange safety indicator, …show more content…
The last article on the school shooting, on the other hand, made me wonder if there are any ways to lessen prejudice from young, because according to Albert Bandura, the ‘upbringing’ and the ‘environment’ of the child heavily influences him or her to think a certain way about others through a process of ‘abstract modelling’, where children ‘observe repeated’ behaviours and develop ‘generalised principles’ (Feldman, 2013). The Pakistani Taliban soldiers might have well been brought up to be against education and …show more content…
(2007), police officers were in fact ‘less bias’ in shooting Black targets than community members, which was expected, given their training, and had much higher criterion when shooting ‘stereotype-incongruent’ targets, though most participants had ‘greater difficulty’ in reacting to ‘stereotype-incongruent targets’, which was consistent to their hypothesis. Also, they found that environment that supports stereotypes increases officers’ racial bias and their timing to shoot correctly, for example, neighbourhood with more Black people involved in crime (Correll et al., 2007).They monitored police officers’ ‘performance’ in a ‘video game simulation’, while including of the significance of a ‘target race’. Similarly, despite being more stereotypically ‘bias’ against Black targets initially, police officers were able to remove their bias toward unarmed Black targets with constant practice eventually, which was consistent to their hypotheses. This is mostly due to the constant ‘exposure’ of unavailability to shoot ‘stereotype-incongruent’ targets (Correll et al., 2007), which influenced participants to raise their criterion for shooting Black targets. (Ashby Plant & Michelle Peruche,