DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
GENDER DEVELOPMENT
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A type of stereo music player
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Something only children believe.
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When a person is shown in a way that is not completely true, but is often believed to be true.
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Something that only applies to Canadians.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A stereotype is a widely held, simplified, and essentialist belief about a specific group. Groups are often stereotyped on the basis of sex, gender identity, race and ethnicity, nationality, age, socioeconomic status, language, and so forth. Stereotypes are deeply embedded within social institutions and wider culture.
Detailed explanation-2: -a set idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong: racial/sexual stereotypes. He doesn’t conform to/fit/fill the national stereotype of a Frenchman. The characters in the book are just stereotypes. Compare.
Detailed explanation-3: -A stereotype is an over-simplified and unjustified opinion about others. It is problematic because it ignores diversity among individuals. Stereotypes are intentional because images are created and fixed on people.
Detailed explanation-4: -The word is French in origin: stéréotype. Stéré-correlates to English’s stere-; both mean “solid.” Stereotypes were not moving (or movable) type, but solid type.