Preconceived vs. Prejudice

By Jaxson

  • Prejudice

    Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person or group member based solely on their group membership. The word is often used to refer to preconceived, usually unfavorable, feelings towards people or a person because of their sex, gender, beliefs, values, social class, age, disability, religion, sexuality, race/ethnicity, language, nationality, beauty, occupation, education, criminality, sport team affiliation or other personal characteristics. In this case, it refers to a positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their perceived group membership.

    Prejudice can also refer to unfounded beliefs and it may include “any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence”. Gordon Allport defined prejudice as a “feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience”. For the evolutionary psychology perspective, see Prejudice from an evolutionary perspective. Auestad (2015) defines prejudice as characterized by ‘symbolic transfer’, transfer of a value-laden meaning content onto a socially formed category and then on to individuals who are taken to belong to that category, resistance to change, and overgeneralization.

Wikipedia
  • Preconceived (adjective)

    Conceived beforehand: formed ahead of time.

  • Preconceived (verb)

    simple past tense and past participle of preconceive

  • Prejudice (noun)

    An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.

  • Prejudice (noun)

    Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.

  • Prejudice (noun)

    An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.

    “I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.”

  • Prejudice (noun)

    Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.

  • Prejudice (noun)

    Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.

  • Prejudice (verb)

    To have a negative impact on (someone’s position, chances etc.).

  • Prejudice (verb)

    To cause prejudice in; to bias the mind of.

Wiktionary
  • Preconceived (adjective)

    (of an idea or opinion) formed before having the evidence for its truth or usefulness

    “the same set of facts can be tailored to fit any preconceived belief”

Oxford Dictionary

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