There has been growing discrimination of the Islamic religion and its relation to terrorism. According to the behavioral approach, such a stereotype arises due to the interactions people have with their environment through conditioning and observational learning. This discrimination develops from people constantly seeing and hearing individuals from this religion being linked to terror attacks. Consequently, one develops a stigma from the stimuli and their behavior towards these people becomes aligned in a given way.
According to the psychodynamic approach, such a stereotype can be explained by giving unconscious psychological processes. It holds that childhood experiences are vital in how adult personalities are shaped. Therefore, if during childhood, an individual experiences a terror attack or even lost his parents to one, they learn that the attack was orchestrated by an individual who was Muslim, they grow having hate for everyone from the religion. This is because due to childhood experience, they think that everyone from the religion is a terrorist.
However, the humanistic approach emphasizes the need to look at an individual wholly rather than at their dysfunction. It stresses such concepts as self-efficacy, free will, and self-actualization and it strives to help people maximize their well-being and fulfil their potential. Therefore, in such a situation, the approach contends that humanistic people will treat Muslims with empathy and focus on their positive traits, whether they are terrorists or not. Therefore, such people grow to accept the flaws of given individuals associated with Islam easily.
Nonetheless, of these three, the behavioral approach makes more sense. The view that people have of terrorists often arises from their interactions. For instance, I am more likely to treat a Muslim friend of mine based upon my interactions with other Muslims or what I hear or see about them. Therefore, it is essential to acknowledge that our environment supersedes all different approaches in explaining our psychological developments and perceptions compared to the other approaches.