the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished
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To discriminate is to make a distinction. There are several meanings of the word, including statistical discrimination, or the actions of a circuit called a `discriminator`. This article addresses the most common colloquial sense of the word, invidious discrimination. That is, irrational social, racial, religious, sexual, ethnic and age-related discrimination of people.
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An intentional or unintentional act which adversely affects employment opportunities because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, marital status, or national origin, or other factors such as age (under particular laws.) See Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
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Refusal of an insurer to provide comparable insurance or use comparable rates for certain individuals or groups with basic characteristics the same as those to whom the coverage or rates are offered. Unfair discrimination is prohibited by law.
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Any act or failure to act, impermissible based in whole or in part on a person's race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, physical or mental handicap, and/or reprisal, that adversely affects privileges, benefits, working conditions, and results in disparate treatment, or has a disparate impact on employees or applicants.
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Behavior that shows prejudice. Failure to treat people equally because of a bias based on characteristic such as race, religion, sex, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, and disability.
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One of the seven goals; called "rejection" in Yarbro. Its positive pole is sophistication; its negative pole is prejudice. It is used for lifetimes emphasizing critical faculties. It is one of the least frequently used goals. Read more about discrimination.
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an act based on prejudice.
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Treating people in a different, usually bad, manner because of their class, race, gender or some other category instead of who they are as individuals. ^
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Unequal treatment of persons, whether through hiring or employment rules or through variation of the conditions of employment, because of sex, age, marital status, race, creed, union membership, or other activities. In many cases discrimination is an unfair labour practice under federal or provincial laws.
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Unequal treatment of qualified individuals with disabilities as members of the general public. Failure to provide reasonable accommodation may also constitute discrimination.
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The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice and for other arbitrary reasons.
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means making differences and distinctions among people, ideas, places and things. Treating people differently with respect to employment because of their race, color, sex, national origin, age, religion, or disability is considered illegal discrimination.
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The differential treatment of individuals considered to belong to particular groups or categories.
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The perception of fine distinctions or differences between stimuli. [1]
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(from Latin - difference), cutting of one group's rights because of their nationality, race, sex, religion and another specifics. In this context is limiting by community the rights of HIV-infected and their families
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A situation in which a plan, through its provisions or through its operations, favors highly compensated employees to the detriment of other employees.
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The illegal treatment of a person or a group of persons based on a prohibited factor. Prohibited factors include race, national origin, color, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, or veteran status.
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Allows the detector to selectively reject certain metal objects or junk.
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an unfair difference in treatment.
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1. The act of denying equal opportunity to a person of differing ethnicity, religion, or gender solely for reasons of prejudice.
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Occurs in the labour market when employment decisions are taken on the basis of ethnic origin or gender rather than ability.
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Denial of equal access to social resources to people on the basis of their group membership.
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The ability to choose between two closely related responses to a specific stimulus.
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Discrimination is the restrictive treatment of a person or group based on prejudiced assumptions of group characteristics, rather than on individual judgment. It is the denial of justice prompted by prejudice.
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is the mental faculty of differentiation, of making an exact distinction between things in mind and in action, the power of accurately observing differences, for example, between right and wrong. Discrimination, which is both acute and discerning, is the faculty that governs right choice. Discrimination is doing the right thing next.
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Actions against a full-time or part-time ACBL employee, independent contractor, member, or participant in an ACBL sanctioned event because of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, disability, sexual orientation or other personal characteristics covered by law.
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