Professor’s comment on the introduction

For this course, you need to propose an idea for correlational, quasi-experimental or experimental research. You say one of the objectives is to identify measures that reduce the effects of prejudice and discrimination. That’s a good topic for this course if you were to design a study using an intervention that is supposed to reduce prejudice and then seeing if it does reduce prejudice. But I’m not seeing that in this research proposal. Your research hypotheses are more global ideas and not thing you can specifically test in a group of participants that you would propose to recruit. You should take one of these hypotheses and focus on that, designing a study to address the hypothesis. For example, for the third hypothesis you could propose to recruit participants and use a questionnaire to determine how much they feel prejudice and discrimination and then compare those who report higher levels of discrimination to those who report lower levels on their self-esteem scores. This assignment should have been more focused on a study that you would do with participants.

Effects of Prejudice and Discrimination Research Proposal

Introduction

Prejudice means having a predetermined opinion, judgment or attitude derived or imposed on certain people based on their membership to a particular group. It comprises a set of attitudes that affect, cause, and justify discrimination among people. On the other hand, discrimination means the ability to be able to distinguish and react to certain over a certain stimulus and ignore the other. Through this prejudice and discrimination are highly connected. There are different types of prejudice that include cognitive prejudice which focuses on what people believe to be true in their own culture, they include stereotypes, impressions, criticisms, assumptions that affect a person’s attitude toward others. Affective prejudice that deals with what people like and dislike in others and thus affecting their attitudes towards particular people (Kite and Whitley, 2016) .Finally cognitive prejudice focuses on how different people behave and are inclined to their behaviors. Therefore prejudice; leads to discrimination. Therefore this research proposal aims at identifying the effects of prejudice and discrimination.

Purpose of the research

The main purpose of this research proposal is to develop the necessary skills for psychology students in having the ability to design a comprehensive research study and thereby derive meaningful conclusions. In addition to this, the study aims at finding out however the different types of prejudice affect the different relationships among people, the attitudes of each other. Therefore with this study, psychology students will be able to identify the different stereotypes that people have in terms of certain traditions and cultures and how they affect the different relationships among different people. Through this research, the psychology students will develop skills on how to conduct a comprehensive literature review on the effects of prejudice and discrimination, the different types of discrimination, develop research questions in this field and thereby enhancing the deep knowledge on prejudice and discrimination (Kite and whitely, 2016). The research proposal will improve the general research skills, by data collection methods, analysis and derive conclusions on psychology. Finally, through this study research, the psychology students will be nurtured more in the psychology field

Research objectives

To identify the different types of prejudice and their effects on different attitudes in the way people relate to one another. To identify different measures on how to reduce the effects of prejudice and discrimination in the way people relate to one another (Oskamp, 2000). To develop proper research and analysis skills that are necessary for conducting research related to the psychology field. Finally, increase and deepen knowledge on prejudice and discrimination, their effects on psychology. Identify the effects of discrimination on and prejudice on each individuals esteem and the effects on relationships with

Hypothesis

Hypothesis one: prejudice and discrimination will lead to unfair justice and treatment of people affected by different stereotypes and negative prejudice. Hypothesis Two: prejudice and discrimination can lead to people of the society feeling worthless, vulnerable, and frightened and thereby affecting their participation and how they behave in different societies. Hypothesis three: prejudice and discrimination harm a person’s personality and self-esteem. In conclusion with the research on the effects of prejudice and relationships, psychology students will develop measures to deal with issues related to prejudice and discrimination.

References

Kite, M. E., & Whitley Jr, B. E. (2016). Psychology of prejudice and discrimination. Psychology Press.

Oskamp, S. (Ed.). (2000). Reducing prejudice and discrimination. Psychology Press.