Children's Learning to Categorize People into Social Groups

question 57

Multiple Choice

Children's learning to categorize people into social groups

• A) influences explicit, but not implicit, prejudice.
• B) may or may not lead to prejudice.
• C) is different in important ways from categorization in adults.
• D) occurs only when children have acquired language skills.

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Definitions:

Regression

A psychological and statistical term referring to a return to a former or less developed state, or a method of predicting the value of a dependent variable based on the value of one or more independent variables.

Bed-Wetting

Involuntary urination while asleep, beyond the age at which bladder control usually occurs.

Born

Coming into existence by birth.

Projection

A defense mechanism where a person unconsciously attributes their own unwanted thoughts, feelings, or motivations to another person.