Course Description

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This course addresses core questions about prejudice and stereotyping -- their causes, consequences, and how to reduce them. Participants will learn about social-psychological theories and research to life with compelling everyday examples; the personal and societal impacts of different forms of prejudice; the cognitive, emotional, motivational, contextual, and personality processes that make stereotyping and prejudice more (or less) likely to occur; anti-bias interventions, and the evidence for their effectiveness.

16 CE credits/hours, 111 questions

Target Audience

Psychologists | School Psychologists | Marriage & Family Therapists | Mental Health Counselors | Social Workers

Learning Level

Intermediate

Learning Objectives

  • Identify specific ways that researchers have defined the concepts of “stereotypes” and “prejudice.”
  • List the factors that cause and facilitate the maintenance of “stereotypes” and “prejudice” in our culture, in our memories, and in our social interactions.
  • Identify specific factors of mood and cognition as they enhance or inhibit our ability to carefully evaluate other individuals in the environment.
  • Discuss the differences between explicit and implicit cognition, their interaction with prejudice, and how prejudice impacts thoughts, feelings, and actions.
  • List and discuss individual difference variables (including research on the prejudiced personality) that may influence our tendency to use stereotypes and hold prejudiced attitudes.
  • Identify different forms of racism and the measures that have been developed to evaluate different presentations of racism.
  • List and discuss the different ways being the target of prejudice and stereotyping may impact the target.
  • Identify and discuss the role of ageism, its impact on the target, and ways to reduce “ageist” thinking about others.
  • Explain the history of anti-LGB+ prejudice and discuss current changes in this form of prejudice and how it is expressed.
  • Explain in detail the factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and reduction of prejudice against women.
  • Discuss the history of anti-fat prejudice and factors that impact the formation, maintenance, and reduction of anti-fat prejudice.
  • Identify and discuss the research in several domains regarding what does, and does not, seem to be effective in reducing prejudice.

Sections

  1. 1

    • Statement of Understanding (downloadable/printable)
  2. 2

    • Final Exam Questions (downloadable/printable)

    • Final Exam
  3. 3

    • Evaluation Questionnaire

About the Authors

Todd D. Nelson, PhD

Todd D. Nelson, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Stanislaus. His research focuses on prejudice and stereotyping, with special emphasis on ageism. A Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Dr. Nelson has authored or edited a number of books on social psychology, prejudice, and ageism.

Michael A. Olson, PhD

Michael A. Olson, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee. Much of his research centers on implicit bias, measures of implicit cognition, prejudice reduction, and intergroup relations. He also advocates for and conducts training sessions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Olson is past associate editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.