Stereotyping Quiz

What is stereotyping?

What are the advantages of stereotyping?

• Define social class

• Allows individuals to respond faster in situations

• Help us organize and make sense of the world around us

• Allows us to get to know more cultures

How we process & filter new first-hand experiences and information

such as watching news and TV shows

A mental structure that organizes knowledge & relationships among them to provide a framework for future understanding

• Accesibility

• Priming

• Schema

• Gatekeeper

True or False?

Priming refers to the process by which we over-generalize recent personal experiences

• True

• False

Which of these is not a disadvantage of stereotyping?

• Can lead to biased and unfair treatment

• Causes us to ignore differences between individuals of a group

• Reduces the amount of processing we do when meeting new people

• Higher chances of assuming things that are false

Where do stereotypes come from?

• Pygmalion effect

• Self-fufilling prophecies

• Grain of truth hypothesis

• Illusory correlation

• Stereotype threat

Who coined the term "self-fulfilled" prophecy?

Self Fulfilled Prophecy perpetuates stereotypes through a causal loop, also known as

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