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Prejudice is stereotypical thinking that has led to many atrocious acts of evil (i.e., eugenics movement). This movement used politically fabricated terms from non-scientific ideologies (prejudice) that generalized people to justify certain beliefs that individuals or groups held of them, and this thinking was motivated to create the perfect society? I experienced an emotional reaction of being appalled when reading about the concepts and generalizations used in the eugenics movement to prejudge people. It is saddening that the politically fabricated term feebleminded was used to label people and their family members as morons, and that these people are genetically defective and do not belong. It may give understanding of the strength that a label imposes, and the difficulty to remove a label since these labels carried over to siblings through years of generations. Disability prejudice can further be denounced because at this time alcoholism, homosexuality, prostitution, criminality, chronic illness, mental and physical disability, unemployment, and prostitution were all socially constructed as genetic traits that could be passed down. So, any people seen as unfit by people could be condemned by higher class members in society (i.e., power privileged) if they portrayed any of these societal problems as behaviors. An outsider to these societal issues may see any of these folks as being flawed, or as having a drawback in their lives, but this surely should not exclude them as people because they have some perceived genetic flaw. Surely the view from the outsider is driven by emotion, preconceived notions, or fundamental negative bias that is particular to this observer, and is motivated by his own internalized set of opinions and attitudes. An experience that I recognized of myself is at 10 straight years of racing motocross I broke a wrist, and was told to stop racing, and at the same time it was suggested by a friend to just drink rather than take the pain meds. I was young and misunderstood of the many negative effects of drinking, and struggled with not identifying as a racer anymore, so I took the drinking advice. Imagining I would have been seen and labeled as feebleminded if in the time of the eugenics movement is as haunting as the drinking was itself, because I may have believed the outsiders label (internalized ableism), and may have never stopped drinking. The drinking days were a temporary stint of discourse and confusion, and I surely regret the cessation of self that enlisted into consuming an innumerable amount of Budweiser during that time. On another note, it allows for the 23.5 years for that of being free from the pains, and gross illusions of alcoholism. The views and labels people place upon others really have a very negative effect, so it is important to look at material from module 2 that will reflect some of the underlying mechanisms of behaviors that lead to disability prejudice. Understanding the social dominance and terror management theories through the ABC’s of ableism helps makes sense of extreme behaviors, and social model offers in the effort to find harmony in the social interactions with others through narratives of acceptance rather than systemically justified ideologies that lead to us versus them type thinking. The trouble is intergroup judgements often lead to oppression and discrimination, which are building blocks to hate, violence, and exterminating practices like the eugenics movement. My experience in social interactions with others is to see the world in all shades of gray, and this positively drives me in this paper to seek cause- effect in the search of causal attributions in the hope of better good for all. I found revelation that the social dominance theory (SDT), is an aspect of an extreme version of prejudice. Accordingly, to maintain the status quo a dominant behavior is to justify ideological beliefs, and this is often done consciously or unconsciously to subordinate, oppress, and discriminate others by creating a number of social constructs that are designed to excluded them from the norm. In this pretense it is necessary to combine the terror management theory (TMT) to best understand some factors of how individual beliefs are derived and actuated as behaviors. The class text explains terror management theory (TMT) as a defense strategy that people use to protect themselves from existential fears about the frailty of life. I am still in quite a quandary about how things can range from anti-social (aggression) behaviors at such an extreme, while pro-social (caring & benevolent) behaviors do not see people as defective, but instead accepts them for who they are. Certain aspects of TMT andSDT can be used to understand the derivatives of thinking that lead to individual differences of anti or prosocial behaviors, consequently this may best be understood by correlating these theories with the underlying mechanism of behavior through the ABC’s of ableism. . When people are prejudged and/or oppressed they are restricted from reaching their true potential, which is insensitive and not fair. I see prevalence in A-effect, B-behavior, and C-cognitive, because they are a link to the motivations of finding meaning in how individuals can vary in extremes and what drives pro vs. anti-social behavior or not. I find the inference of the ABC’s of ableism as relevant because it seems they are the foundation of emotion and belief, which is an important step in understanding theories in relation to non-disabled (outsider) and disabled (insider) interactions. For example, preexisting state like existential innate fears of TMT- frailty of life, also the phenomenon of disease avoidance; germs that lead to disgust (emotion) can be curbed by healthy rationalization of thoughts. Practicing proactive cognition at the ABC stage of cognition may prevent a negative behavioral outcome, which can act as a defense to biological factors that instigate prejudice through innate thinking patterns linked to the emotion of disgust. Even evolutionary circumstances can be curbed, and learning can be reinforced to adapt appropriate behaviors through proactive cognitive practice. Also, beliefs driven by fundamental negative bias or rationalizing unhealthy negative behaviors (i.e., eugenics), for example I would be grateful if these people did not exist is an extreme style of SDT and TMT thinking that may be unconscious in nature. A negative pre-existing emotional state may stem from environmental circumstances that relate to stress may be at risk of the affect- apathy. For example, burnout leads to apathy and apathy to disgust. Psychologist Rollo May insists if a person becomes addicted to the emotion disgust that they are highly susceptible to antipathy and extreme behaviors which often become evil. Stimuli that cause the effect of ill- fated emotions can be counteracted by self-awareness, and understanding how the evolutionary and existential aspects of TMT may make some individuals more vulnerable to certain stimuli than others is important. My experience with this is understanding one’s self may be more difficult than understanding others, but sometimes understanding oneself can be done best through the interactions with others because this is where an individual is most vulnerable and their own weaknesses can be unveiled. In the right emotional state this is where effective change can take place. This is where consciousness meets experience through the balancing of self-awareness, and emotion through cognitive control, equally the frame of intellect may be distorted or exulted depending on one’s very own estrangement. . It is at the affect, cognitive, and behaviors of the ABC’s of ableism that stigmatizing conditions are formed and contested. In considering the social constructs (i.e., racism, classism, sexism, ableism) it is important to recognize these interactions are not one sided, conversely these exchanges are socially validating at the positive or negative for each party involved. Often prejudicially fabricated stereotypes are based on opinions, and that these attitudes may be ill-suited is a concern because certain tendencies socially devaluate, cause inferiority, and exclude people through oppression and unacceptance. The social model of disability brings a reaction to me because it is created by and for the disabled to see through the barriers of stereotypes, prejudice, opinions, and attitudes, in contrast to the outdated biomedical model which uses make them like us thinking. Looking at the social aspects and how the mind works in the social interactions between the disabled and non-disabled may very well be enlightening; the best gift of all that of acceptance and love. An experience this class reminded me of was from way back. A co-worker of my dads had a son that had fallen in the pool and became disabled. When I was around 4 -7 my mom and I would make weekly visits to see Betty and Mark. I remember looking through the sliding glass doors at the pool while visiting with Mark. This is not an experience of sadness, but one of joy Mark was always happy and excited to see me. I remember his communicating with me and his laugh very well, and this heartfelt memory of visiting with my friend Mark brings about a strong sense of gratitude that to this day is hard to explain. I also appreciate my mom because she was there to support her friend with loving kindness. Article: Being Sane in Insane Places by David L. Rosenhan, I find this study interesting because it shows the very real dangers of diagnostic labeling. In reference to Ableism the behaviors of the pseudopatients reflected internalized ableism when they were labeled as schizophrenic. 8 normal patients presented themselves at various mental hospitals complaining of hearing voices. They were diagnosed as schizophrenic, and all 8 were hospitalized. Once hospitalized they acted normally but found it difficult to get rid of the label and released from the hospital. It is just an example of the power of stereotypes, and this situational context was not fear based or TMT based on existential scenarios. It was more SDT based because the staff members acted authoritarian in their behavior toward the patients which is a form of power and control. The patients exhibited signs of deindividuation as being labeled schizophrenic the diagnosis acted on all of them as if it were a self-fulfilling prophecy, which Rosenhan states the patients himself accepts the diagnosis, with all its surplus meanings and expectations, thus behaves accordingly. D. L. Rosenhan. (1973). On Being Sane in Insane Places. Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 179(4070), 250–258. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.179.4070.250

1). For the author. Are there any correlational studies that recognize a rise in the level of prejudice in relation to level of economic hardship a country may be facing? 2). The prior question may be deemed as such, yet I am trying distinguish why social creations change with the times and places as societies revolve and regress?