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This posting describes how Staats and Staats (1958) examined the way in which ethnic prejudices can develope due to Pavlovian conditioning.

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I briefly offer my notes to describe how Staats and Staats (1958) examined the way in which ethnic prejudices can develop due to Pavlovian conditioning:

First, please note how classical conditioning correlates with racial and ethnic prejudice. Psychological research reveals that when target words are paired with negative or positive terms, people perceive the target words as negative or ...

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