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Psychological and physiological correlates of stimulus discrimination in adults

Psychophysiology, 2023
AbstractThe discrimination of cues in the environment that signal danger (“fear cue”) is important for survival but depends critically on the discernment of such cues from ones that pose no threat (“safety cues”). In rodents, we previously demonstrated the underlying neurobiological mechanisms that support fear versus safety discrimination and ...
Jacklynn M. Fitzgerald   +2 more
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Online Racial Discrimination and Psychological Adjustment Among Adolescents

Journal of Adolescent Health, 2008
To examine associations between individual and vicarious racial discrimination via the Internet and psychological adjustment.This study was a cross-sectional survey using a school-based sample of adolescents. Two hundred sixty-four high school students aged 14-18 completed the online survey.Twenty percent of whites, 29% of African Americans and 42% of ...
Brendesha M, Tynes   +3 more
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Discrimination, Psychological Isolation, and Flight from School

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2021
Discrimination negatively impacts students’ ability to adapt to and deal with the educational stressors of a new environment. When students experience discrimination, their options are to fight, fawn, or flee—that is, skip school. This study focuses on the third option among refugee and immigrant students and addresses two inter-related issues: (a) the
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Social Psychology of Discrimination

1996
Discrimination is usually treated in social psychology as negative, orten aggressive behavior aimed at the target of prejudice or negative stereotype. Because very often terms like prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination are used interchangeably it should be explained here that in social psychology prejudice is understood as a negative attitude ...
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Discriminant Analysis in Counseling Psychology Research

The Counseling Psychologist, 2006
Social science research often entails the comparison of two or more groups. For example, researchers may explore differences between sexes, races, ethnicities, sexual identities, treatment conditions, diagnostic categories, or various other grouping variables.
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Perceiving discrimination: Psychological and sociopolitical barriers

Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale, 2006
Recognizing discrimination is not always an easy thing to do. This is particularly true in North America where perpetrators’ fears of being labelled have resulted in a shift in the type of discrimination experienced. Incidents may be subtle and ambiguous. As a country of immigration, Canada provides a template for the world community.
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Influence of Stimulus Discriminability on Psychological Refractory Period Effect

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
10 undergraduate students were tested in a psychological refractory period paradigm. Stimulus 1 was a visual discrimination task (same-different) and S2 was a 1,000-Hz tone. Discriminability of S1 and ISI were varied. Ss always had to respond to S2, but to S1 only when it was “same.” Discriminability of S1 was found to affect R2, irrespective of ...
F J, Tolkmitt, G P, O'Connor
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Discriminating Violent Individuals by Means of Various Psychological Tests

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1978
Attempted to clarify the 43/4-8(8-4) controversy and further research the relationship between assaultiveness and other non-MMPI measures. Sixty-one male adolescent prisoners divided into four groups according to Race and Level of Assaultiveness served as subjects for this study.
L M, Lothstein, P, Jones
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THE DISCRIMINATION METHOD IN ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY

Nature, 1942
THE fact that an animal is able to discriminate between two stimuli is the foundation of a method used extensively in animal psychology. It is, however, open to various sources of error. While looking through a number of papers dealing with this method I found that some of these possible pitfalls are often not sufficiently realized.
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