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employment discrimination

an employer’s use of a person’s ethnicity, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or other variable unrelated to job qualifications or performance as a factor in differential pay, hiring practices, termination of employment, or working conditions.

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Psychology term of the day

May 9th 2024

PQ4R

PQ4R

n. a set of study methods developed on the basis of research in cognitive psychology. The set represents six steps required for acquiring information: preview, question, read, reflect, recite, and review.