Recent Research Indicating That Social Cognition May Play a Role

question 246

Multiple Choice

Recent research indicating that social cognition may play a role in the formation of prejudice and discrimination suggests that prejudice may spring from

• A) the processes involved in how we think.
• B) well-founded reasons and experiential data.
• C) the acts of discrimination and stereotyping.
• D) attitudes and emotions which we have inherited.

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