Examples of stereotype in the following topics:
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- Children are taught the stereotypes that go along with their particular race(s), as well as the races of others, and these stereotypes can have a strong influence on their development.
- Stereotypes and racialized expectations often contribute to stereotype threat, in which a child experiences anxiety or concern in a situation that has the potential to confirm a negative stereotype about his or her social group.
- For example, if an African-American child is given the message that black people are not as "smart" as white people, she may worry if she is not doing well in school because it will, she fears, confirm the negative stereotype.
- Importantly, stereotype threat has been shown to be something of a self-fulfilling prophecy—not because the negative stereotype is accurate, but because fear of fulfilling that stereotype can lead to additional anxiety, which in turn can reduce performance.
- For example, stereotype threat can lower the intellectual performance of black students taking the SAT, due to the stereotype that they are less intelligent than other groups, which may cause them to feel additional pressure and anxiety.
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- Ageism (also spelled "agism") involves stereotyping and discriminating against individuals or groups on the basis of their age.
- The stereotypes, discrimination, and devaluing of the elderly seen in ageism can have significant effects on the elderly, affecting their self-esteem, emotional well-being, and behavior.
- After repeatedly hearing the stereotype that older people are useless, older people may begin to feel like dependent, non-contributing members of society.
- Studies have also specifically shown that when older people hear these stereotypes about their supposed incompetence and uselessness, they perform worse on measures of competence and memory; in effect, these stereotypes become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Research has found that people who hold more ageist attitudes or negative age-related stereotypes are more likely to face higher rates of depression as they get older.
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- We also develop stereotypes to help us make sense of the world.
- Stereotypes are categories of objects or people that help to simplify and systematize information so the information is easier to be identified, recalled, predicted, and reacted to.
- Between stereotypes, objects or people are as different from each other as possible.
- Within stereotypes, objects or people are as similar to each other as possible.
- Stereotypes become dangerous when they no longer reflect reality, or when they attribute certain characteristics to entire groups.
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- Potential causes include socioeconomics, test bias, and stereotype threat.
- Stereotype threat is the fear that a person's behavior will naturally and unconsciously conform to the stereotypes that define that person's group.
- Testing situations that highlight the fact that intelligence is being calculated have been shown to lower scores in groups of people that associate themselves with the stereotype of a lower IQ group.
- Review the state of research examining the causes of group differences in intelligence and the effect of stereotype threat on performance
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- The attitudes and expectations surrounding gender roles are not typically based on any inherent or natural gender differences, but on gender stereotypes, or oversimplified notions about the attitudes, traits, and behavior patterns of males and females.
- Gender stereotypes form the basis of sexism, or the prejudiced beliefs that value males over females.
- Every time we see someone riding a motorcycle and assume, without looking closely, that they are male, we are engaging in gender stereotyping.
- This particular gender stereotype assumes that women are too timid or weak to ride a motorcycle.
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- Much of this discrimination is based on stereotypes and misinformation.
- Many people experience racism in the dominant LGBT community where racial stereotypes merge with gender stereotypes.
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- Common features of prejudice include negative feelings, stereotyped beliefs, and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group.
- Heuristics are along the same lines as rules of thumb, stereotypes, educated guesses, intuitive judgements, and profiling.
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- Each person's frame is a set of interpretations, a collection of anecdotes and stereotypes, that they rely on to understand and respond to the world around them.
- Our constant attempt to categorize concepts in the world around us can lead us to stereotype or judge people, concept, and ideas in order to make them "fit" into a certain category in our mind.
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- This is one way stereotypes form and endure.
- Hamilton & Rose (1980) found that stereotypes can lead people to expect certain groups and traits to fit together, and then to overestimate the frequency with which these correlations actually occur.
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- Much of this discrimination is based on stereotypes, misinformation, and homophobia, an extreme or irrational aversion to homosexuals.