racial discrimination

the differential treatment of individuals because of their membership in a particular racial group. Discrimination is in most cases the behavioral manifestation of prejudice and therefore involves unfair, negative, hostile, or injurious treatment. See also racism.

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Psychology term of the day

November 17th 2024

mother figure

1. a person who occupies the mothering role in relation to a child: a mother surrogate.

2. in psychoanalytic theory, a person onto whom the patient transfers feelings and attitudes that he or she had toward the real mother or the primary caregiver. Also called mother substitute.