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What Are the Causes of Racial and Ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination

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What are the causes of racial and ethnic prejudice and discrimination? What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?


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Mastery/Avoidance

Goals oriented towards gaining proficiency in a task versus goals aimed at avoiding incompetence or failure.

Physiological Need

A basic biological requirement for human survival, such as food, water, and sleep, which must be satisfied to maintain health.

Extracellular Thirst

Thirst caused by a reduction in the volume of fluids found outside of the body cells, often due to blood loss or dehydration.

Intracellular Thirst

A type of thirst caused by the decrease in the volume of fluid inside cells, typically as a result of high salt intake or other factors affecting cellular water.

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