Qualification: Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care
Unit: Equality and diversity in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings
Learning outcome: Understand equality, diversity and inclusion
Assessment criteria: 1.5 Explain the attitudes that may lead to discriminatory behaviour
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- Attitudes that lead to discriminatory behaviour include:
- Stereotyping – assuming that all individuals from a particular group share the same characteristics (e.g. all aliens are obnoxious)
- Prejudice – ingrained and false beliefs about individuals from a particular group (e.g. aliens make me angry because they all voted for Donald Trump)
- Labelling – assigning a label to a group of individuals (e.g. “greenies”)
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